| Title: |
Kim On Chhun
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
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| Collection: |
Southeast Asian History: Cambodian Life Histories
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| Description: |
Kim On Chhun's husband, who worked with the CIA, arranged to have his family evacuated to a village close to the Thai border before the takeover of Phnom Penh by the Khmer Rouge. She made it to a refugee camp in Thailand in April, 1975 with her entourage (four daughters, two sons, her mother, a maid and two of her husband's secretaries) when Cambodia fell to the Khmer Rouge.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Speaker: |
Chhun, Kim On, 1940-
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1940
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Cambodia; Asia
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| Speaker race: |
Asian
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| Speaker occupation: |
Businesswoman; Manager
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Organizations discussed: |
Khmer Rouge, Cambodia
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| Historical events discussed: |
Cambodian Civil War, 1970-1975
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| Locations discussed: |
Asia; California; Cambodia; North America; Pnumh Pénh, Cambodia; Thailand; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Asia; California; Cambodia; Cambodia--History--1953-1975; Cambodia--History--1975-1979; Cambodian Civil War, 1970-1975; Khmer Rouge, Cambodia; North America; Oral history; Pnumh Pénh, Cambodia; Refugees--Cambodia; Thailand; United States
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| ASP release: |
2007-01
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| Document code: |
OHI0035304-38872
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