Remembrance and Renewal: Celebrating Cambodian American Stories (2021)

April 17, 1975 marks the day in which the lives of Cambodians everywhere were forever tragically changed when the Khmer Rouge marched into Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia, and evacuated the entire population. April 17th, 2021 marks 46 years of a tragic event in human history, the fall of Phnom Penh that led to the Cambodian Genocide. Thousands of refugees, survivors of the genocide, found homes all over the world in hopes of rebuilding what had been lost. Cambodian Genocide Remembrance Day honors the lives lost, the survivors and their descendants for their courage, resiliency, and contributions to the City of Long Beach. Our Remembrance and Renewal interview series, shares the inspirational stories of those who inherited the traumas of war and how they continue to hope, to dream, to build, thrive, and celebrate as Cambodian Americans.