Cambodian Genocide Collection (USC Shoah Foundation)
| Cambodian Genocide | |
|---|---|
| Held by | USC Shoah Foundation |
| Scope | Survivor testimony of the Cambodian genocide |
| Language | English; Khmer |
| Subjects | History & Remembrance; Migration & Diaspora |
The Cambodian Genocide collection holds five survivor testimonies recorded by the USC Shoah Foundation and preserved in its Visual History Archive. (USC Shoah Foundation Cambodian Genocide collection)
Overview
The five interviewees witnessed the Khmer Rouge evacuation of Phnom Penh in April 1975, the forced marches that followed, and forced labour in the north-west of Cambodia. The testimonies were recorded in the United States in 2009, 2011 and 2015. (USC Shoah Foundation Cambodian Genocide collection)
Material coverage
Three testimonies are in English and two are in Khmer with English subtitles. The collection page names the testimonies Phansy Peang on Losing Her Family to Genocide and The Power of Anger, with Theary Seng as the narrator of the latter, and states no individual durations, interviewers or item numbers. (USC Shoah Foundation Cambodian Genocide collection)
Catalogue and access
The testimonies sit within the Visual History Archive, which the foundation opens to subscribing institutions in full and to any registered user in part: the Visual History Archive Online carries indexing data on all interviewees and full-length video for a subset of testimonies, with free registration at http://vha.usc.edu/. Viewing the full archive at USC requires the university's secured network or virtual private network. (USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive access)
Selected recordings
Entries in this index for recordings held in the collection. KhmerConnection indexes this material and does not hold or provide access to the recordings.