A large oil painting of a notorious international concentration camp established by Japanese troops during World War II in east China's Shandong Province was recently unveiled to mark the 70th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, as well as World War II.

The painting portrays Dr. Norman Cliff, a British prisoner of the Weixian Concentration Camp, telling his experiences in the camp. Drawn by Li Yuejin, a retired government official and an amateur painter, the painting is two meters long and 1.6 meters wide.

The Weixian Concentration Camp was established by Japanese troops in the former Weixian County (present-day Weifang City) in east China's Shandong Province in March 1942. It was used to imprison civilians of Allied countries living in north China. A total of 2,008 civilians from Europe and the United States, including 327 children, were kept in the camp. The last batch of prisoners were liberated on Aug. 17, 1945.

The list of prisoners in the camp included renowned politicians, artists, scientists and even sportsmen, such as R. Jaegher, a foreign-born adviser to Chiang Kai-shek; the Reverend W.M. Hayes, president of the former Huabei Theological Seminary; Arthur W. Hummel, former U.S. ambassador to China; and Eric Liddell, the British athlete who won the 400m gold medal at the 1924 Olympic Games.

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