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Coordinates: 34°08′36″N 118°15′13″W. The Peace Monument of Glendale is an exact replica of the original memorial dedicated to comfort women, the Statue of Peace. The statue is located in Central Park [1] near the Glendale Public Library in Glendale, California, United States. The Glendale Peace Monument was funded and built in 2013 by ...
The San Francisco Comfort Women memorial is a monument dedicated to comfort women before and during World War II. It is built in remembrance of the girls and women that were sexually enslaved by the Imperial Japanese Army through deceit, coercion, and brutal force. [1] It is approximated that there were around 400,000 "comfort women" from Korea ...
In 2013, a memorial statue to comfort women called Peace Monument of Glendale was established in Glendale, California. [252] The statue has been subject to multiple legal attempts to remove it. [ 301 ]
Rockhaven Sanitarium Historic District. The Rockhaven Sanitarium Historic District is located in the Crescenta Valley at 2713 Honolulu Avenue in what is now the City of Glendale, California, United States. The sanitarium for which it is named was opened in 1923 by psychiatric nurse Agnes Richards as a private mental health institution for women ...
The Statue of Peace (Korean: 평화의 소녀상, Pyeonghwaui sonyeosang; Japanese: 平和の少女像, Heiwano shōjo-zō), often shortened to Sonyeosang in Korean or Shōjo-zō in Japanese (literally "statue of girl") and sometimes called the Comfort Woman Statue (慰安婦像, Ianfu-zō), is a symbol of the victims of sexual slavery, known euphemistically as comfort women, by the Japanese ...
Glendale is a city in the San Fernando Valley [10] and Verdugo Mountains [11] regions of Los Angeles County, California, United States. At the 2020 U.S. Census the population was 196,543, [ 7 ] up from 191,719 at the 2010 census , [ 12 ] making it the fourth-largest city in Los Angeles County and the 24th-largest city in California .
The Memorial was a collaboration between the Washington Coalition for Comfort Women Issues, Inc., and Fairfax County, led by Sharon Bulova, Chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. [2] The Memorial was unveiled after a campaign and fundraising by Korean American activists. [6] A group of Korean Americans led the project to establish ...
Casa Adobe de San Rafael is one of the oldest homes in Glendale, California. The home has been in continuous use since its founding in 1865. It was designated a California Historic Landmark (No. 235) on Oct. 31, 1935. Jose Maria Verdugo petitioned Pedro Fages, Governor of Alta California, for a Spanish land grant in October in 1784.