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The women were often raped by up to 32 men per day; the visiting soldiers were allocated 15 minutes each at a nominal cost of 3 Reichsmarks per "session" between the hours of 2 p.m. and 8.30 p.m. [5] Those who were visibly pregnant were sometimes released, but would not go back to their families, so as not to shame them.
The women forced into these brothels came mainly from the women-only Ravensbrück concentration camp, [2] except for Auschwitz, which used its own prisoners. [3] In combination with the German military brothels in World War II , it is estimated that at least 34,140 female inmates were forced into sexual slavery during the Third Reich .
In June 2017, Brookhaven, Georgia unveiled a statue memorializing the Comfort Women of World War II. [315] On September 22, 2017, in an initiative led by the local Chinese-American community, San Francisco erected a privately funded San Francisco Comfort Women Memorial to the comfort women of World War II.
Until the early 1990s, the term "comfort women" (위안부; 慰安婦) was often used by South Korean media and officials to refer to prostitutes for the U.S. military, [25] [26] the term "Yankee princess" has been used instead. [1] [27] [28] However, by 2013, some South Korean media were using the term "U.S. comfort women" (미군 위안부 ...
This is a list of people who were compelled into becoming prostitutes for the Japanese Imperial Army as "comfort women" during World War II. [1] Several decades after the end of the war, a number of former comfort women demanded formal apologies and a compensation from the Government of Japan, with varying levels of success. [2]
The Statue of Peace (Korean: 평화의 소녀상; RR: Pyeonghwaui sonyeosang; Japanese: 平和の少女像, Heiwano shōjo-zō), often shortened to Sonyeosang in Korean or Shōjo-zō in Japanese (literally "statue of girl") [1] and sometimes called the Comfort Woman Statue (慰安婦像, Ianfu-zō), [2] is a symbol of the victims of sexual slavery, known euphemistically as comfort women, by ...
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Ruff-O'Herne was born in 1923 in Bandung in the Dutch East Indies, then a colony of the Dutch Empire.She grew up as a devout Catholic. [4] During the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, Ruff-O'Herne and thousands of Dutch women were forced into hard physical labor at a prisoner-of-war camp at a disused army barracks in Ambarawa, Indonesia. [5]