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Khmer Oral History Project: Interview with Thaly Chhour

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Khmer Oral History Project: Interview with Thaly Chhour (Supplied title)
CollectionKhmer Oral History Project
Recording typeInterview
NarratorThaly Chhour
SubjectsHistory & Remembrance; Migration & Diaspora; Family & Intergenerational Life

An interview with Thaly Chhour recorded for the Khmer Oral History Project and catalogued by the Minnesota Historical Society. (Minnesota Historical Society record)

Description

Thaly Chhour was displaced from her home village during the fighting that preceded the Khmer Rouge regime and moved with her family to Phnom Penh, where they lived until 1975. She was fourteen when the Khmer Rouge came to power, and her father and brothers died in 1976. Her sisters and mother survived starvation and repeated illness but were no better off in the refugee camps near the Thai-Cambodian border. After reaching Khao I Dang refugee camp the family was sponsored to come to the United States, and she describes adapting to life in Minnesota. (Minnesota Historical Society record)

Credits

The catalogue record names Thaly Chhour as the narrator and states no interviewer, so the interviewer is not recorded here. The interviews in this project were recorded in July and August 1992 and the project copyright is held by Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights. (Minnesota Historical Society record) (Minnesota Historical Society project description)

Access

The interview is catalogued in the Minnesota Historical Society collections search, which states no item number, no access restriction and no online recording link, so a researcher should ask the society how to listen or view. (Minnesota Historical Society record) KhmerConnection indexes this material and does not hold or provide access to the recordings.

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