Killing Fields Visit by Allison McIllece What are the Killing Fields? Choeung Ek (Khmer: ជើងឯក) is the site of what once was an orchard and Chinese graveyard, but is now a mass grave of victims from the Khmer Rouge located about 17 kilometers (11 mi) …
By Nhem Sokunthea, Cambodia Project Coordinator Read this post in Khmer My name is Nhem Sokunthea. I’ve been a project peer leader for three years. I got involved with the project right after I returned from missionary service for the Church of Jesus Christ of …
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 …
Allison McIllece served a missionary for the the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Phnom Penh, Cambodia Mission from Dec 2016 – June 2018. “After coming home from my mission, I was eager to stay involved in preserving the Cambodian culture and …
I began working with the Cambodia Oral History Project in December 2016. I started out as the Volunteer Coordinator at BYU and quickly learned the importance of the project. I beganlistening to interviews and came across a woman that I had met while I served …
This is Theary Leng! She is from Kampong Cham, Cambodia. She served an LDS mission in the Hawaii Honolulu Mission and will be studying Master of Public Administration at Brigham Young University in the Fall. She has been working for several months as the project …
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 …
