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Jerry Chen, a member of the famed Flying Tigers of World War II, is greeted by the audience at the opening ceremony of the exhibition The Forgotten Camp: Allied POWs of Shenyang in San Francisco on Tuesday. The exhibition details the life and ordeals of Allied prisoners held at Japan’s notorious Mukden camp in what is modern--day Shenyang, China. Liu Dan / China News Service

Fan Lihong (right), curator of the current exhibition and director of the Site Museum of Shenyang POW Camp of WWII Allied Forces, introduces the exhibits to Professor Ying-Ying Chang and Dr Shau-Jin Chang, parents of Iris Chang, who brought new attention to Japanese atrocities in World War II with her 1997 international bestseller The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II.

Jackie Huss Hallerberg, daughter of Walter Huss, a US POW at the Mukden camp, shares stories about her father’s war experiences with media members at the opening ceremony of the exhibition.

Honored guests including Luo Linquan (back row, center), consul general of China in San Francisco; Consul General Lau Kai Mun of Singapore (back row, fourth from right); and Flying Tigers veteran Jerry Chen (back row, third from left), pose with Able2Shine, a local singing group that performed both Chinese and American songs at the opening ceremony.

Ji Tao (left), president and editor-in-chief of China Daily USA, and Fan Lihong, curator of the exhibition, hold certificates of appreciation presented by Florence Fang, founder of the WWII Pacific War Memorial Hall in San Francisco, for their support of the museum, which honors Chinese veterans.