CALOOCAN CITY, (PIA) -- The Philippine World War II Memorial Foundation, together with Intramuros Administration, on Saturday, July 16, opened an exhibit commemorating the events during the second world war from 1939 to 1945.

Manila Mayor Honey Lacuna graced the ribbon cutting of the World War II exhibit dubbed, "Remembering World War II" narrative and pictorial exhibit, which will be open to the public from until December 31, 2022 at Fort Santiago in Intramuros, Manila. 

Pangan was joined by Mexican Ambassador H.E. Gerardo Lozano Arredondo, Australian Ambassador H.E. Steven Robinson, New Zealand Ambassador Peter Kell, Russian Embassy Counsellor Constantine Beliaeu, and Intramuros Administration OIC Edgardo Baysic during the ribbon cutting ceremony.

During World War II, Fort Santiago was captured by the Japanese Imperial Army, and used its prisons and dungeons including the storage cells and gunpowder magazines for hundreds of prisoners who were killed near the end of the war.

The fort sustained heavy damage from American and Filipino military mortar shells during the Battle of Manila in February 1945. Also, approximately 600 American prisoners of war died of suffocation or hunger after being held in extremely tight quarters in the dungeons at Fort Santiago. (PIA-NCR)