With profound thanks to Keo Somaly for her service as the COHP Cambodia coordinator, we are pleased to introduce Vanna Roth as the new coordinator. She has been a peer leader for some time and we welcome her now in this new role. “Hi! I …
Eav Sareoun, a Cambodian refugee now living in America, shares in a video interview how he escaped death four times and what life was like for him in the Khmer Rouge. “[When] Pol Pot’s time began, I went to their village and then I did …
It has been over three years since we launched the Cambodian Oral History Project. Its progress has been both rapid and somewhat surprising. We are pleased to announce that the project has recently surpassed 4000 interviews. In addition to the interview milestone, we have processed …
One of the main aims of this project is to preserve stories that might otherwise disapear. Since the project was launched in January 2017, we have sadly lost several participants. Yet, the families’ grief has been softened some by the preservation of the family members’ memories–––especially their …
Sarah Collins* As part of my work with the Cambodia Oral History Project, I review interviews and tag them for keywords. As I have listened to the different interviews I have noticed a distinct difference among the age groups. I listened to an older woman …
Jordan Denkers is a 21-year-old BYU student from Idaho Falls, Idaho currently studying public health, with hopes to study medicine and become a physician in the future. From July 2015 to July 2017, he served as a full-time LDS missionary in Cambodia, where he fell …
Whitney Haddock grew up in Heber City, Utah and has been a student at BYU since 2014. She is currently applying to the Marriott School of Management with sights set on the marketing and supply chain operations programs. From 2015-2017, Whitney served a full-time LDS mission …
Salli Hollenzer* During the fall of 2014, while my husband, Ken Hollenzer, and I served in Cambodia as Family History missionaries, a middle aged Cambodian church member of a local LDS branch, walked into the Family History office. He didn’t speak English, but through the …
Bryan Brittain* There are few lands in which the past bleeds so much into the present. People follow traditions that no one can tell you the origin of, handed down in an esoteric language that few people in the rest of the world care to …
