南京市广州路小粉桥1 号，是1932至1938年间德国西门子公司驻南京代表处代表约翰.拉贝先生的住宅。南京沦陷后，这里成为南京安全区25个难民收容所之一，25万难民拥进安全区避难，这个小院就保护了600多位难民免遭日军杀害。拉贝先生亲眼目睹日军暴行，在这里写下了著名的《拉贝日记》。          No.1 Xiaofenqiao, Guangzhou Road, Nanjing was where Mr. John Rabe (1882-1950), representative of the German Siemens China Co. in Nanjing, resided from 1932 to 1938. Since Nanjing fell into the hands of the Japanese troops, this house became one of the 25 refugee camps in the Nanjng Safety Zone. Of the 250,000 refugees who flooded into the Zone to seek shelter, over 600 had been protected by this single house from Japanese persecution. Witnessing the atrocities around him, Mr. Rabe reported them in his daily writings which later became known as “Diaries of John Rabe.”     1937年12月，侵华日军攻占南京前,拉贝被推选为南京安全区国际委员会主席，拉贝及其领导的南京安全区国际委员会成员，在中华民族的危急时刻，出于正义感和仁爱之心，置个人安危于不顾，尽其全力照顾、保护、拯救处于日军暴行恐怖下的中国军民，揭露战争罪行，呼吁世界和平。在他们身上体现了伟大的人道主义精神和无私的人类之爱，他们的崇高品质及所发挥的作用，应受到人们永远的纪念和大力宣传。     Shortly before the Japanese occupatioin of Nanjing in December 1937, Mr. Rabe was chosen to be Chairman of the International Committee for the Nanjing Safety Zone. At this critical moment of the Chinese national crisis, he led the members of the Committee in doing everything they could to help protect the Chinese soldiers and civilians against the Japanese terror and saved their lives at the risk of their own safety. Their strong sense of justice and benevolence urged them to reveal war crimes and appeal for world peace. Their respectable deeds reflect the great spirit of humanitarianism and the selfless virtue of human love. The noble ethical qualities they displayed and the function they fulfilled are worthy of being commemorated for ever and publicized far and wide.     自1997年起，在南京市人民政府支持下，南京大学开始对拉贝故居进行保护，并着手规划将故居修建成纪念馆。2003年9月，时任德国总统的约翰内斯 劳先生访问南京大学时，对拉贝故居表示关注。继总统先生访问南京之后，西门子（中国）有限公司副总裁、西门子江苏省总经理艾伟先生和江苏博西家用电器销售有限公司总裁盖尔克先生自2004年夏开始与南京大学就拉贝故居修缮项目进行全面的沟通工作。在各方的不懈努力下，拉贝故居修缮工程于2005年末成功启动。2005年12月，德意志联邦共和国驻上海总领事馆、西门子（中国）有限公司、江苏博西家用电器销售有限公司三方与南京大学共同签署了共建“拉贝与国际安全区纪念馆”和“拉贝国际和平与冲突化解研究交流中心”协议，建设资金由德方捐赠，南京大学负责故居的修缮、纪念馆建设和管理工作。拉贝故居的保留和纪念馆建设，还得到江苏省及南京市政府有关单位和个人的大力支持，在此，特向捐赠方及上述有关单位和个人表示衷心感谢！     Since 1997, supported by Nanjing municipal government, Nanjing University began to reserve Rabe’s former residence and planned to renovate the former residence into the Memorial Hall. In September, 2003, while the then German President Johannes Rau visited Nanjing University, he showed concern about the former residence of John Rabe. Following President Rau’s visit and great encouragement, Mr. Erdal Elver, Vice President of Siemens China and General Manager of Siemens Jiangsu, and Mr. Roland Gerke, President of BS Home Appliances Co., Ltd., started communication efforts for renovation with Nanjing University since the summer of 2004. Under such joint and relentless efforts from different parties, the renovation project successfully kicked off at the end of 2005. In December, 2005, the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Shanghai, together with Siemens Ltd., China and Bosch-Siemens Home Appliances Sales Co. Ltd. in Jiangsu, signed an agreement with Nanjing University on joint efforts to construct “The John Rabe and International Safety Zone Memorial Hall and John Rabe Research and Exchange Centre for Peace and Reconciliation.” The German side was to provide the fund for the construction, while Nanjing University was responsible for the restoration and maintenance of Rabe’s former residence, the construction and management of the Memorial Hall. Organizations and individuals concerned of Jiangsu province and Nanjing municipal government have also made great contributions to the preservation of Rabe’s former residence and the construction of the Memorial Hall. We hereby express our heartfelt thanks to all the donors and aforementioned organizations and individuals.     建立“拉贝与国际安全区纪念馆”和“拉贝国际和平与冲突化解研究交流中心”，一是纪念、缅怀拉贝先生及国际委员会成员，铭记他们伟大的人类之爱；二是让世人永记这段惨痛的历史和血的教训，让历史悲剧不再重演；三是倡导世界和平，在世界范围内弘扬人道主义精神、促进中国与世界各国人民之间的友好交流与合作。同时，该馆的建立对于激发人们的仁爱之心和奉献精神，呼唤人类和平，制止战争犯罪，都具有不可估量的意义。     The establishment of the John Rabe and International Safety Zone Memorial Hall and John Rabe Research and Exchange Center for Peace and Reconciliation is meant, firstly, to commemorate Mr. Rabe and the members of the International Committee for their deep love of humanity. The establishment is also intended to refresh people’s memories of and learn lessons paid with blood from this agonizing period of Chinese history so that tragedies of this kind will never recur. Moreover, the project is meant to promote world peace and humanitarianism everywhere, and to further develop friendly communications and cooperations among peoples of China and all other countries of the world. We believe that the establishment has immeasurable significance in inspiring people of the world with the spirit of benevolence and sacrifice, in demanding human peace and in preventing the committing of war crimes.                                                              Nanjing University                                                  October of 2006