George Ashmore Fitch
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican missionary (1883-1979)
Lived 1883 to 1979 · aged 95
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George Ashmore Fitch was an American Presbyterian missionary that lived and worked in China, southern Korea, and Taiwan. Fitch notably smuggled out of Nanjing some of the only known reels of film that documented the Nanjing Massacre.
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The Fitch family in New York (1897)
The Fitch couple and notable Korean independence activists. Bottom row from the right are Fitch, his wife Geraldine, Kim Ku, and Franziska Donner (later the first First Lady of South Korea).
Nanking Safety Zone International Committee, left to right: Ernest H. Forster, Lewis Strong, John H.D. Rabe, Lewis Smythe, Eduard Sperling, George Ashmore Fitch
Geraldine Townsend Fitch (1892-1976). Missionary, Korean independence activist, and second wife of Fitch
Poster from the South Korean Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs commemorating Fitch as the independence activist of the month for January 2018.About this person
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1883 to 1979 · aged 95
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