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 2 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.
