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My mother, Vannak, talks about experiencing the Khmer Rouge at just three years old.

Beatrice Peterson recalls her experiences traveling with the American military during the midst of the Cold War to locations like Vietnam, Cambodia, Germany, and Romania while being interviewed by her granddaughter, Maddy Shearer on May 14th, 2022. She details how...

Mia speaks to her father, David and they discuss his childhood

This interview is about my mother's life in Cambodia where she grew up during Cambodian genocide. In addition to, her life before and after it started, and the life struggles she had dealt with even as a young child. She...

I ask Mohammed about his family and how they got to the U.S, as well as other questions like how he lost so much weight and how he feels about education.

The interview was so hilarious and full of enjoyment! My Mom shared some some I never knew. The best part of the interview was when she told me that she was a cry baby when she went to school and...

Kan Hoa Chung discusses his journey during the Cambodian genocide led by Pol Pot and their extremist regime. He discusses the challenges he and his family faced to survive and come out alive. This is his story and his memories...

Cousins Billy Taing (44) and Jill Hanhong (36) discuss Billy's upbringing, the changes that led him to gang life and the crime that changed his life.

This story is about a family immigrated to the United States Of America

We talked about my grandma’s life in Cambodia before the war and her life during the Khmer Rouge. She emphasized to me how important it is for family to stick together.

We talked about my grandpa and grandma’s love story. We also talked about how important his grandchildren and family are to him.

Creating Community Through Sharing Stories: Linda Love Mesler, whose family has roots in rural Iowa for hundreds of years, talks about her global childhood, from New York to Cambodia. After becoming a technology lawyer, she settled in Andover and is...

Amanda So (29) interviews her father, Suor So (69), about his life, focusing on his immigrating to the United States in 1981 from Cambodia and his subsequent life here.

Ayesha, born in India, lived in Abu Dhabi and moved to Richmond, Virginia at the age of eight. She's currently twenty-three with a six-month old son, she's working on getting her PHD in Islamic History at Northwestern university in Chicago....

Sam talks about his childhood unable to settle anywhere. He also talks about his family and their past.

My dad had to move away from Cambodia because of the Khmer Rouge and ending up in America he was given endless possibilities

My best friends dad went through a horrific war as a child, the Khmer Rouge. As a child of the war he tells his story.

Candice Romanow (64) tells facilitator Daniel Littlewood (32) about being in San Francisco in the 1960s, living alone in the woods, and her travels in Cambodia.

We talked about many things, especially religion and thoughts to other generation's.

I interview my cousin, Jacob de Galicia (20), about his passions and talents. Jacob tells me his influences on his passions, and how he incorporated his talents with his passions to make him who he is today.

My mom shares with me the joys of her childhood in Cambodia and some of the inequities she faced as a girl.

My mom survived the Khmer Rouge and made a new life in America with my dad and four kids. She shares with me some lessons in life that keeps her strong and hopeful.

Anne Ripley (76) is interviewed by her friend, Sharron Dorr (76), about Anne's volunteer work with the International Committee of the Red Cross in Cambodia during the time of the Khmer Rouge.

I understand that was born in and experienced her childhood in different country. I want to ask her about how her everyday life was back then and how she might compare it to her present life in the U.S.

I talk to Sister Dr. Luise Ahrens, an American Maryknoll nun who worked for 26 years in Cambodia. Sister Luise speaks of her work helping to rebuild the Royal University of Phnom Penh and education throughout the country. We learn...