To overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry—and the suffering they cause— through the educational use of the Institute’s visual history testimonies

From February through April 2009, Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) staff members Bunthy Chey, Fatily Sa, and Ratanak Leng participated in an internship program at the USC Shoah Foundation Institute to support DC-Cam’s ongoing effort to collect testimony from survivors of the genocide in Cambodia, which claimed as many as two million lives from 1975–1979.

Working closely with Institute staff, the DC-Cam interns became familiar with the Institute’s practices for collecting and preserving testimony; drafted a pre-interview questionnaire for use with Cambodian genocide survivors; conducted pilot interviews with two Cambodian genocide survivors living in the Los Angeles area; began to index the pilot interviews; and began to learn how the Institute uses technology to preserve and provide access to the testimonies in the archive.

View video of CNN's visit with the interns during their stay at the Institute. 

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