Two former “comfort women” who had been subject to sexual slavery by Japan in the early 20th century and a Holocaust survivor handed in a petition to Japan’s mission in the United Nations on Sunday, demanding acknowledgement and apology from the Japanese government.

The petition carried roughly 130 signatures from politicians in New York, as well as Jewish and Korean communities in the United States.

One of the former “comfort women,” Lee Yong-su, demanded the Japanese government to show repentance for not responding to protests which had been held in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul for the last 20 years.

Japanese representative to the U.N. Tetsuya Kimura said the petition would be delivered to Japanese foreign affairs ministry though he claimed that Japan had already apologized and offered compensation to the "comfort women."