Oral history interview with Sophy Khut
| Oral history interview with Sophy Khut | |
|---|---|
| Collection | Cambodian Americans – Oral History of 1.5 Generation |
| Recording type | Oral history |
| Narrator | Sophy Khut |
| Subjects | History & Remembrance; Migration & Diaspora; Work & Livelihoods |
An oral history with Sophy Khut 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
Sophy Khut was born on 8 October 1965 in Chong Kal Village, Oddar Meanchey Province, and was ten years old when the Khmer Rouge took control of the country. Because her father had served in the local National Guard, he and their extended family of fifteen were to be executed, so they fled barefoot and without food through the jungle to the Thai border. An uncle already in the United States sponsored the family, who settled in Longview, Oregon. She earned a degree in finance and psychology at Oregon State, opened her first restaurant in Oregon in 1990 and later moved to Long Beach to be in a larger Cambodian community, where she turned a Chinese restaurant into a Cambodian one. (Historical Society of Long Beach oral histories)
Credits
The project page names Sophy Khut 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.