Woman Who Could Not Forget (64 page)

Delivering the keynote speech in San Francisco in September, 2001, at a conference counteracting the official commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the San Francisco Peace Treaty.

Iris in 2003. (Photo by Jimmy Estimada.)

In an interview with Orville Schell.

Iris was one of the keynote speakers at the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 9th, 1998, in the San Francisco Masonic Center. With her, other speakers were Martin Luther King III, the son of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and Arun Gandhi, grandson of the legendary Indian leader Mohandas K. Gandhi (second and fourth from left, respectively). At left is Ignatius Ding, VP of Global Alliance for Preserving the History of WWII in Asia.

Her new book,
Chinese in America
in 2003.

At a press conference at Toronto in 1998 with David Magee (right), son of John Magee, who showed the camera his father had used to record many Nanking atrocities. John Magee was a minister who served as chairman of the International Red Cross Committee of Nanking during the massacre.

In an interview with Charlie Rose.

Delivering a speech at the Committee 100 conference in 2003.

Iris with her one-year-old son, Christopher, at home in 2003.

Iris met the descendants of Nanking Safety Zone Committee members in Michigan in 1998. Harriet Mills and Angie Mills (left and second from left, respectively) are daughters of Wilson Plumer Mills, who was the Presbyterian missionary in Nanking in 1937, and Neal Brady (right) is the son of Richard Brady (a surgeon who worked for the safety zone committee after the worst of the massacre was over). Brady gave the original Safety Zone Red Cross flag to Iris, who later donated it to the Hoover Institution.

Iris at a book signing in 2003 for
The Rape of Nanking
and
The Chinese in America
, one of her last before her suicide.

Friends light candles outside the funeral home during the visitation on November 18, 2004.

Iris’s grave at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Los Altos, California.