Oral history interview with Bonavy Som
| Oral history interview with Bonavy Som | |
|---|---|
| Collection | Cambodian Americans – Oral History of 1.5 Generation |
| Recording type | Oral history |
| Narrator | Bonavy Som |
| Subjects | History & Remembrance; Migration & Diaspora; Community & Civic Life |
An oral history with Bonavy Som recorded for Cambodian Americans – Oral History of 1.5 Generation, the project archived at CamCHAP and housed at the Historical Society of Long Beach. (Historical Society of Long Beach oral histories)
Description
Bonavy Som was born in 1966 in Phnom Penh and was nine years old when the Khmer Rouge took control of the country. Her family was separated into labour camps in Battambang. After the Vietnamese entered Cambodia in 1979 she crossed the Thai border into Khao-I-Dang camp with her sister and mother; a Catholic organization sponsored them to Valley City, North Dakota, and within the year they moved to Long Beach to join extended family. She is a mental health clinician with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, and she attributes Cambodian resilience to a community that takes care of each other. (Historical Society of Long Beach oral histories)
Credits
The project page names Bonavy Som as the narrator and does not name an interviewer for the individual recording. Pacific Asian Counseling Services recorded the interviews from a mental health perspective, the concept was first developed by Cambodia Town, and funding came from the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health under the Mental Health Services Act. (Historical Society of Long Beach oral histories)
Access
The narrator's profile on the project page carries a Watch Oral History link to the recording on the society's video channel, published at the oral history video. No item number or recording date is published. (Historical Society of Long Beach oral histories) KhmerConnection indexes this material and does not hold or provide access to the recordings.