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NEW YORK - Koreans in New York have found in the Jewish community an ally to help shed light on sexual slavery committed by the Japanese in the 20th century. The Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center - which raises awareness of the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping - has a new exhibition in memory of the so-called “comfort women.” Set to run from Aug. 11 to Sept. 18, the exhibition is a first for the center on the theme. “The Holocaust Center plays a centerpiece role in the Jewish community in the United States,” said Kim Dong-seok, an adviser to the Korean American Voters’ Council (KAVA), “and holding a comfort women exhibition here in the center means that mainstream American society is acknowledging the humanitarian crimes committed by the Japanese military and denouncing them.” About 40 paintings by Korean and American painters as well as by several Korean comfort women will be exhibited, the center said, with other visual records of the comfort women and documentaries to be showcased. Lectures will also be arranged during the exhibition, it said. Part of Queensborough Community College, the center also plans a reception for leaders in the political and art communities in New York on Aug. 15 - Korea’s Liberation Day that commemorates freedom from Japan’s 35-year colonial rule. While up to 200,000 women from Korea, China and other Asian Pacific countries were forced into sexual slavery for Japanese soldiers during World War II, Tokyo has come under criticism for taking insufficient responsibility. In July 2007, the U.S. House of Representatives adopted a resolution demanding Japan’s formal acknowledgment and apology “in a clear and unequivocal manner.” The center has published 25,000 copies of educational materials about humanitarian crimes around the world. It recently shed light on the Nanking Massacre in China, distributing 5,000 educational materials on the incident to junior high and high schools across the United States. 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