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"This is history that is still very personal to us. And it's still part of our daily lives." British vlogger Jack Forsdike grew up hearing stories from his grandfather, a WWII RAF pilot, who flew bombing missions over Europe. Each takeoff was a brush with death. For years, that was his image of the war. But everything changed when he visited the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 in Harbin in China's northeast Heilongjiang Province, alongside his wife. There, history became intertwined with his own: Her grandfather, as a child in occupied Shenyang, was forced to study in Japanese and bow to the Emperor every day. Two family stories, divided by continent yet bound by the same war, converged on this land. Eighty years have not erased the scars. Instead, they remind us that history is not distant, but carried in through blood, in memory, in generations.

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