Salli Hollenzer* During the fall of 2014, while my husband, Ken Hollenzer, and I served in Cambodia as Family History missionaries, a middle aged Cambodian church member of a local LDS branch, walked into the Family History office. He didn’t speak English, but through the …
Bryan Brittain* There are few lands in which the past bleeds so much into the present. People follow traditions that no one can tell you the origin of, handed down in an esoteric language that few people in the rest of the world care to …
Keo Somaly* BYU Cambodia Oral Family Histories Project has made me realize that Cambodia has some great and sad histories. As Cambodian, I have been learning about Cambodia history through my work on the project. There are three important stories which I would like to …
On the departure of Thomas Anthony to Cambodia to serve as intern, the project has brought on Sarah Collins to handle the volunteer efforts and to help coordinate media efforts. Sarah grew up in Lindon, Utah, and has been attending Brigham Young University for two …
Samuel Osborne* When serving as an LDS missionary in Cambodian, a young boy approached my companion and me during a church meeting, asking us to teach the gospel to his mother. I had no idea of the relationship that was about to form. This boy …
In the two and a half years since the formal launch of the project in January 2015, we have seen amazing progress. Bellow are some of the progress by the numbers: Benchmarks and accomplishments * 512 audio interviews in Cambodia * 18 video interviews in …
Interns Our current intern, Wesley Crump, is returning to the U.S. and to his studies at Brigham Young University. During his tenure there the project collected around 100 interviews, toward the current number of 314. We are grateful for his hard work in Cambodia …
Wesley Crump and Kong Seiha introduce us to the Cambodian Oral History Project and how it can help the people of Cambodia. Be sure to turn on English subtitles!
McKall Harris Project Volunteer Brigham Young Univeristy I have loved being involved with the Cambodian Oral History Project. I think it’s really easy for us to view other people and cultures as completely different than ourselves. We often forget how much we really have in …
