PALISADES PARK – The public is invited Thursday to meet two Korean women who recently arrived to share their story of captivity by Japanese soldiers during World War II.

Yongsoo Lee, 83, and Ok-Seon Yi, 84, will meet with the public at 12:30 p.m. at the borough library. The women were brought to the United States by the Korean American Voters’ Council, and spoke at an art exhibit at the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center in Queens earlier this week. The exhibit focuses on the struggles of the many women held prisoner during the war.

“They are here to spread awareness and not let these things happen again,’’ said Steve Cavallo, one of the artists whose paintings are being exhibited at the center.

Lee and Yi spent years in captivity during the war at prison camps where they were among thousands of Asian women used as sex slaves by Japanese soldiers.

The woman will see the borough’s memorial to “comfort women,” the term used to describe the woman in captivity by the Japanese. The monument was erected last year in front of the library.