Mussau Island
A group of Korean and Chinese comfort women were abandoned by the Japanese on this island in early 1944. They were force to live in inhuman conditions and had to survive a vulcano eruption, American bombardments and an outbreak of leprosy.
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- Text: Kaj Metz
- Photos: Weijola V, Donnellan SC, Lindqvist C
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