▲ Jan Loop Ohern, a grandmother who sits side by side with victims of Japanese slaves in South Korea and Taiwan (right)


Grandmother Jan Loop Ochern, a Dutch-Australian victim of sexual slavery by Japanese forces who occupied Indonesia during World War II, died at the age of 96.


The Australian media advertiser reported Monday that her grandmother died in Adelaide, South Australia, on Monday.

Yoon Mi-hyang, president of the Justice Memory Regiment to solve the issue of Japanese sexual slavery, told Facebook that the Japanese survivor Jan Loop O'Hern, who was living in Adelaide, Australia, was destined to 96 years old yesterday.

Old Ocher was born in 1923 on the Dutch island of Java, Indonesia.

While living in a congregation to become a nun, she was abducted and confined to a `` comfort station '' installed in Sumarang in 1944 when she was 21 years old by the Japanese army occupying Indonesia.

He then concealed the damage and married a British officer after the war and moved to Australia in 1960.

After seeing her public press conference on August 14, 1991, she was courageous and testified that she was a comfort woman victim in the local press in 1992.

In the same year, an international hearing was held in Tokyo, Japan.

Ochern was the first European to testify to the damage of Japanese slaves during World War II.

In 2000, he stood at the International Court of Women of Japanese Military Slavery, and in February 2007, he attended the US House of Representatives hearing, which was the background of the movie "I Can Spike," and told the world that he had suffered damage.

In addition to her grandmother Koh Dol and Gwon Won-ok, she also launched a peace and human rights movement in Melbourne, Australia and elsewhere.

Grandma O'Hernern received the Australian Government Medal of Honor in 2002, and in 2004 he won the 100th Anniversary Medal from Australian Prime Minister John Winston Howard.

O'Hernny's granddaughter, Ruby Challenger, released last year's Daily Bread, a film about her grandmother's experience in Indonesia's Japanese camp.

The Challenger starred in the film.

(Photo = EPA, Yonhap News)