The Northeast Asian History Foundation, Korea; the Foundation of Japanese Honorary Debt, the Netherlands; and the Ravensbrück Memorial Museum, Germany, will hold The Korea-Germany-Netherlands Joint Exhibition on ‘Comfort Women’ at the Hague City Hall in the Netherlands from Monday, June 8, through Sunday, June 28, local time.

Under the title of ‘Comfort Women’: Unfinished History, the exhibition was planned to show the seriousness of women’ s human rights violations during the war, dealing with the issues of Japanese Military ‘comfort women’ and coerced sexual labor in the Nazi concentration camps.

The Korean display, A Newly Revised History: The Story of Japanese Military ‘Comfort Women’ has twenty panels describing the ‘comfort women’ system, victims’ testimony and portrayals of ‘comfort women’ camps. The exhibition also includes Japan‘s response to the matter, and victim and international-community efforts to resolve the ‘comfort women’ dispute.

The Dutch display, ‘Comfort Women’: Unfinished History, consists of ten panels recounting sexual abuse of Dutch women in the Dutch East Indies(now Indonesia) during the Japanese occupation. The exhibit describes forced labor of prisoners of war, the Resolution on the ‘Comfort Women’ adopted by the Dutch parliament in 2007 and efforts made by Dutch civic groups to resolve the dispute.

The German exhibit, The Coerced Sexual Labor in the Nazi Concentration Camps, has thirteen panels depicting forced sexual labor in Nazi concentration-camps. The exhibit describes life and living conditions in concentration-camp brothels, and in Ravensbrück.

The documentary film, 63 Years On, produced by the Korea Center for United Nations Human Rights Policy (KOCUN) will also be shown during the exhibition.

This exhibition seeks a broad, illuminating perspective of women’s human rights during wartime and it seeks to build international consensus and resolution of the dispute over Japanese military ‘comfort women’.