The Children of Huang Shi — China
British journalist George Hogg helps evacuate 60 orphaned children across the mountains of Shanxi Province as Japanese forces advance — a true story of extraordinary courage in wartime China.
George Aylwin Hogg (1909-1945) was a British journalist and aid worker who ran the Shandan Bailie School in China. In 1945 he led 60 orphans on a 1,200-km trek across the Qilian Mountains to Shandan in Gansu Province to escape advancing Japanese forces. He died of tetanus shortly after the journey, aged 30. The children he saved lived to adulthood.