When Americans are willing to consider the worst savagery that humans can inflict on one another, they might visit the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., or read about Nazi Germany’s systematic murder of 6 million Jews during World War II.

Jean Bee Chan would also like people to also know what happened to her, her family and tens of millions of others during the same war, but on the other side of the world. The retired Sonoma State University mathematics professor, who survived starvation as a young girl in rural China through 1945, has joined efforts with a small Bay Area nonprofit to bring attention to war crimes committed by Japan, Germany’s Axis ally.

“It’s important, because if we don’t remember history, we’re going to repeat it,” the 88-year-old San Rafael resident said, offerin

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