Piled up coffins in the Hongqiao (Hungjao) Cemetery of the Shanghai Pubic Benevolent Cemetery

Title : Piled up coffins in the Hongqiao (Hungjao) Cemetery of the Shanghai Pubic Benevolent Cemetery

Topic : Virtual Shanghai

Year : 1937

Location : Shanghai

Date (start) : 1937

Nature : B&W Photo

Support image : Paper

Caption on support : Deplorable conditions at Shanghai Burying Ground

Information data : Shanghai Times, 21 October 1937. This is a picture of the buried coffins in the cemetery of the association (Pushan shanzhuang - ????) that took care of collecting exposes corpses and abandoned cofffins in the International Settlement. This picture shows the extreme difficulties the association faced as the number of collected corpses increased and with limited accessible land due to Japanese restrictions during the war.

Keywords : war;death;cemetery;coffin;burial