Minnie Vautrin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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missionary in China
Date of Birth: 27-Sep-1886
Place of Birth: Secor, Illinois, United States
Date of Death: 14-May-1941
Profession: missionary
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
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.
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