FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.queenscourier.com JANUARY 31, 2013 • kids & education • The QUEE NS Courier 51 Queensborough students connect with Korean ‘comfort women’ BY MELISSA CHAN [email protected] Ok Sun Lee was kidnapped by Japanese soldiers at age 15. She was raped on average 30 times a day. She spoke so history would not repeat itself. Korean “comfort women” recounted their tales of survival s kids & education “Raise Your Hands If You Want To Keep Lice Out Of “The Classroom!” a full-service company dedicated to the detection & removal of head lice… • Non-Toxic Pesticide-Free Removal Methods • Flat Fee for Treatment • Complimentary Recheck • Guaranteed Results • Pediatrician & School Nurse Endorsed • Full Line of Treatment & Prevention Products • Reimbursed By Medical Flex Spending and by some Insurance Companies guaranteed! Nassau COuNTY 216 Lakeville Road (Rear Cottage) Great Neck, NY 11020 516-773-4333 suffOLK COuNTY 1 angelica Court Hauppauge, NY 11788 631-724-7444 WE ACCEPT ALL MAJOR CREDIT CARDS FREE Shampoo, Mint Repellent Spray & Lice Comb ($45 value) with treatment & ad WE WOuLD bE “DELIghTED” fOR yOu TO JOIn OuR fRAnChISE OPPORTunITIES! • Low start-up costs • Fast Growing Industry • Be Your Own Boss Don’t nit pick over a great business opportunity! Offering by prospectus only www.deliceful.com [email protected] Two convenient child friendly, state-of-the-art salons: to a group of students at Queensborough Community College’s Kupferberg Holocaust Center. The survivors represent a small handful of the 200,000 young women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Army in World War II, according to accounts. “She was just a little girl,” said student Alexander Crombez. “When you’re face to face, hearing about completely horrible events, things we can’t imagine as being possible, it feels much more immediate. These are people who Grace Church Playschool Join Us For oUr open HoUses: Mon. Feb 11th • Tues. Feb 12th & Wed. Feb 13th • 9am-11am If you cannot make our open House, please call for an appointment Get a great start in our warm, friendly school that has been providing new & exciting educational foundations in our neighborhood for many years. Children born in 2010-2011 (must be age 2.9 to begin) can start in one of our great programs. Our age appropriate curriculum includes: Color & Shapes H Music H Letter Recognition H Number Recognition Science H Social Studies H Social Skills H Imagination & Fun And Much, Much More…… Morning Classes 8:30am - 11:00am Afternoon Classes 11:30am - 2:00pm Full Day Classes 8:30am - 2:00pm Small Class Sizes H Qualified Teachers H Computers H Local Field Trips EARLy NoN-REFuNdAbLE EduCATIoN FEE $15000 14-15 Clintonville Street, Whitestone, NY 11357 Email: [email protected] 718-767-2162 www.gracechurchwhitestone.org are grandparents.” Crombez, 19, of Flushing, said he and eight others studied the history of World War II in East Asia before receiving a firsthand account of the brutalities from the comfort women through videoconference. Most of them are now in their 90s, living in South Korea, students said. “That’s when it moved from an academic type setting to a more personal, emotional trip,” he said. “It’s hard not to imagine the terror she went through when she was a young child.” Student Wei Wu Li, 22, said he interviewed Ilchool Kang. Soldiers in the comfort station, he said, cracked the back of her head open because she drank water without permission. “That was a heartbreaking story,” Li said. The group of scholars said it was their goal to ensure the tales are remembered. “It is because these students have studied the atrocities committed against the women of Korea during World War II that they have emerged as spokespersons for social justice,” said Dr. Arthur Flug, executive director of the Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center. “By doing so, they have guaranteed these women that they will not be forgotten.” Councilmember Peter Koo said he is pushing for a Flushing street to be named in honor of the comfort women. State Senator Tony Avella hopes to soon announce a resolution memorializing them. Photo Courtesy of Queensborough Community College Students recounted firsthand accounts of surviving Korean comfort women during a recent ceremony at Queensborough Community College.
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