Recording
Phansy Peang on the loss of her family
Phansy Peang on the loss of her family is a published excerpt of testimony in which Phansy Peang tells how the Cambodian genocide took her parents and children.[1] It comes from the Cambodian Genocide Collection (USC Shoah Foundation).[1]
About the recording
In the excerpt, Phansy Peang details how she was affected by losing both her parents and her children during the genocide.[1][2]
The narrator
Phansy Peang was born in Cambodia in 1948.[3] She became a refugee during the Cambodian civil war. On April 20, 1975, three days after the fall of Phnom Penh, the 28-year-old Peang and her family were forcibly moved to a commune. There she worked on a line that built canals, dug rice paddies and tore down buildings.[4] The cooperatives where she lived were in Kandal and Pursat provinces.[5]
In 1977 she learned that the Khmer Rouge had shot and killed her husband, because he had once been a factory director under a leader of the US-backed Cambodian government.[4] Vietnamese armed forces liberated her in Pursat province in 1979.[5][4] She returned to Phnom Penh, then moved to a refugee camp in Thailand, and she later resettled in Long Beach, California.[4][6]
The collection
The USC Shoah Foundation interviewed Peang in Long Beach in 2009.[4] Her testimony is one of five survivor testimonies in the collection, recorded in the United States in 2009, 2011 and 2015.[2] Clips from it, together with clips from the testimony of Holocaust survivor Harry Evan-Stein, form the foundation's educational activity "Migrants & Refugees."[6] A high school classroom activity is also built on her testimony.[3]
Credits
Phansy Peang is the narrator. No interviewer or duration is published for the excerpt.[1]
Access
- Excerpt: USC Shoah Foundation
- The full testimonies are held in the Visual History Archive. The foundation opens it in full to subscribing institutions, and in part to any registered user through the Visual History Archive Online, with free registration at vha.usc.edu.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 USC Shoah Foundation video record
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 USC Shoah Foundation Cambodian Genocide collection
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Teaching with Testimony, testimonies
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 USC Shoah Foundation, Cambodian Genocide: 43 Years Later (April 2018)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 USC Shoah Foundation, Phansy Peang
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 USC Shoah Foundation, Cambodian Genocide: 45 Years Later (April 2020)
- ↑ USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive access