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Heritage Archive: Cambodian American Family Stories Pack
Culturally Specific Printable Insert Pages
Your family survived the Khmer Rouge. Many of them never spoke about it. This is one way to ask.
Cambodian American families carrying the legacy of the Khmer Rouge genocide and one of the most traumatic survivor migrations in American history — including families who survived the killing fields and the Thai border camps, those resettled in Long Beach, Lowell, and across the United States, and second-generation Cambodian Americans navigating the particular silence of intergenerational genocide trauma
The Name It First Experience
Cambodian American families carry one of the most devastating histories of the twentieth century: the Khmer Rouge genocide of 1975–1979, which killed an estimated 2 million people — a quarter of Cambodia's population — and targeted educated, urban, and religious Cambodians specifically. Many survivors lost most of their family. Many arrived in America with trauma so acute that silence became the primary way of managing it. Many raised children who grew up knowing something terrible happened but not what. This pack gives Cambodian American families structured prompts to document the Cambodia before the Khmer Rouge, the genocide and survival experience where survivors are willing to share it, the Thai border camps, and the resettlement story. The output is a documented family archive, held with care.
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Sample questions
- What smells, sounds, or foods take you straight back to your family's home — and whose story lives there?
- What did your family survive or carry across generations that you want your children to understand?
- Who is the storyteller in your family — and what story are you afraid might disappear?
- Think of an elder whose voice you still carry with you. What is one thing they said that you never want to forget?
Research basis
Grounded in Boss (1999) ambiguous loss applied to genocide survivor families / Cambodian American oral history methodology / Ong (2003) Buddha Is Hiding / intergenerational genocide trauma documentation (Eisenbruch, 1991).
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