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Khmer Oral History Project: Interview with Yoeuth Yan

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Khmer Oral History Project: Interview with Yoeuth Yan (Supplied title)
CollectionKhmer Oral History Project
Recording typeInterview
NarratorYoeuth Yan
SubjectsHistory & Remembrance; Migration & Diaspora

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

Description

Yoeuth Yan was a student in 1975 when the Khmer Rouge regime began. He was sent out of Battambang City, fell ill with malaria while working on the youth mobile team, found his mother and siblings, and learned that his father had been taken away and killed. He describes falling ill again, being made to work in various camps including a reeducation camp, finding his family after Vietnamese soldiers arrived in 1979, leaving for Thailand, supporting himself by selling Thai goods to Cambodians, and moving to Minnesota through a sponsor from the American Refugee Committee. (Minnesota Historical Society record)

Credits

The catalogue record names Yoeuth Yan 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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