A documentary about former Taiwanese 'comfort women' who spoke of their experiences after decades of silence was shown at the Women Make Waves Film Festival. (Photo courtesy of Women Make Waves Film Festival, Taiwan)

A new exhibition that chronicles the stories of Taiwanese women forced into sexual slavery by Japan during World War II, euphemistically known as "comfort women," will open next week in Taipei.

The exhibition will open Nov. 25 in conjunction with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, according to the Taipei Women's Rescue Foundation, which is organizing the exhibition.

Highlights of the exhibition will include a series of artworks by artist Phoebe Man of Hong Kong, the foundation said Friday.

Among the exhibits will be an animation titled One Person, One Heart, along with related installation art pieces by Man that are based on hundreds of messages or pictures the foundation has collected over the past few months from the public that lend support to the comfort women, it said.

The event will also showcase historical photos and documents featuring the hardships of the comfort women and their decades-long fight for justice from the Japanese government, the foundation said.

Clips from two documentaries on the comfort women that were produced by the foundation will also be screened at the event, with some of the women telling their own stories, it added.

The exhibition will run through Dec. 10 — Human Rights Day — at Bopiliao, a historic area in Taipei, it said.

Over the past two decades, the foundation has been dedicated to helping Taiwanese comfort women cope with their mental anguish and seek compensation from Japan. It has launched many initiatives in this regard, including documentaries and art exhibitions.

More than 2,000 women from Taiwan were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, according to the foundation, in addition to women from China, Korea and Southeast Asia numbering in the tens of thousands by the lowest estimate but more likely in the hundreds of thousands.