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Sep 27, 1886 Secor, Illinois, United States Died on 14 May 1941 (aged 54)
missionary in China
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About Minnie Vautrin
- Wilhelmina "Minnie" Vautrin (September 27, 1886 – May 14, 1941) was an American missionary, diarist, educator and president of Ginling College.
- She was a Christian missionary in China for 28 years.
- She is known for the care and protection of as many as ten thousand Chinese refugees during the Nanking Massacre in China, at times even challenging the Japanese authorities for documents in an attempt to protect the civilians staying at her college. After persisting in the Nanking Safety Zone from 1937, she returned to the United States under extreme stress in 1940.
- She committed suicide there in 1941, still wishing in her diary that she could return to her work in China.
- Vautrin was posthumously awarded the Emblem of the Blue Jade by the Chinese government for her sacrifices during the Nanjing Massacre.
