The Northeast China Revolutionary Martyrs Memorial Hall, located at Harbin of Heilongjiang Province and opened to the public on October 10, 1948, is a Chinese revolutionary memory hall.
The memorial hall is a three-storeyed building built in 1931 in the Western European classic architectural style. In September 1933, the puppet police department occupied this building and turned it into a location for the Japanese aggressors to suppress the Chinese people. Zhao Yiman, an anti-Japanese national heroine, walked away from here to the execution ground after being cruelly tortured. The memorial hall has collected over 7,000 items and over 5,000 pieces of historical information. Important collections include the mattress once used by General Yang Jingyu, an anti-Japanese national hero, a pair of trousers worn by General Li Zhaolin when he was assassinated by the KMT special agent, and a Mao Zedong Medal, a special medal for military merit conferred to Dong Cunrui, a combat hero known nationwide to blow off the enemy fortification with an explosive package supported with one of his hands.
The Memorial Hall covers an area of 4,283 square meters with 1,200 square meters of floor space for display. The exhibits mainly show the deeds of representative martyrs that are of great influence and typical significance in the northeastern region. Altogether around 1,000 items of historic relics, pictures and materials are on display.
Since the founding, the Memorial Hall has received visitors of about 7.28 million person-times. In addition to popularizing the activities of the martyrs' deeds, the Memorial Hall also organized roadshows in 1977 going down to the grass-root level to popularize the martyrs' deeds and carry out the education of patriotism, revolutionary traditions and ideas. Their footprints have covered all the prefectures, cities and counties in Heilongjiang Province and other 16 provinces and cities all over China. More than 1.6 million people have been educated. The Memorial Hall has been cited by the Ministry of Culture in China and the Government of Heilongjiang Province, and won the honorable title of the Advanced Collective of Socialist Spiritual Civilization.
The publications of the Memorial Hall include the books in series related to the deeds of martyrs' struggles in the Northeast, such asBiography of Martyrs in the Liberation War of the Northeast, andBiography of Anti-Japanese Martyrs in the Northeastjointly compiled with the Party History Research Institute of the Party Committee of Heilongjiang Province.
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