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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...

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...

Dasundy Ou had a difficult life growing up. When she was extremely young, her country was taken over my communists that destroyed her land. Here, she shares the story of her life and what she has to say to the...

Rebecca Satim Penh-Ma talks with her younger cousin, Masaya Sky Kraichit about her time growing up as a refugee, adapting and growing up in America from Thailand.

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...

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.

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

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.

Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Sichan Siv [no age given], talks about The American Dream with his friend, David Waddle (67). He reflects on his escape from the Khmer Rouge and shares how he was able to...

Adamson Kobashigawa (35) talks with his mother Suzie Leng Yuk (74) about her life before the Khmer Rouge invasion in Cambodia, life during the invasion and how she survived with her kids, and what life was like after the Khmer...

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.

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...

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.

My mom talks about growing up in the 80s and the complications regarding education and immigration.

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

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.

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

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.

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...

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

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

Chantara Nop (65) interviews his friend, Bryant Ben (61) about his life. They discuss Bryant's early years in Cambodia, the outbreak of war in Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge genocide, and Bryant's own move away, first to Thailand, then to Canada,...

This interview is about my uncle experience in Cambodia before he came to Las Vegas. Disclaimer: background noises such as laughter was unrelated to the interview.