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Clip from Interview with Kakrona Khem

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Clip from Interview with Kakrona Khem
CollectionCambodian American Community of Oregon Oral History Project
Recording typeExcerpt
NarratorKakrona Khem
InterviewerSamantha Khem
RecordedMay 2009
DurationClip: 42:45–44:30
Catalogue referencehttp://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/12690
SubjectsFamily & Intergenerational Life; Work & Livelihoods; History & Remembrance

A published excerpt from a video interview with Kakrona Khem recorded on May 2009 for the Cambodian American Community of Oregon Oral History Project and held in Special Collections at the Portland State University Library. (PDXScholar item record)

Description

Kakrona Khem discusses his older brother in Cambodia, who cared for him and his siblings when they had no father, including selling bread to help provide food when their mother lacked money. He also describes how his brother guided him about work, found him a job at a power plant after the Vietnamese came, and reunited with him after they had been separated. (PDXScholar item record)

Credits

The item record names Kakrona Khem as the narrator and Samantha Khem as interviewer, and gives 42:45–44:30 as the timing of the excerpt within the full interview. (PDXScholar item record)

Access

The persistent identifier is http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/12690. Portland State University Library states that the digital access copy is made available as streaming media for personal, educational and non-commercial use within the parameters of fair use as defined under United States copyright law, that it cannot be reproduced, distributed or screened for commercial purposes, and that enquiries go to Special Collections at [email protected] or (503) 725-9883. (PDXScholar item record) KhmerConnection indexes this material and does not hold or provide access to the recordings.

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