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Talking Memory - In Commemoration of the Cambodian Genocide: A Conversation with Loung Ung

TIME: 2 PM EST | PLATFORM: Zoom | REGISTER: bit.ly/3fb4n89

The Ghetto Fighters' House in partnership with SAHGF and Classrooms Without Borders
invites you to a special 'Talking Memory' event in honor of the National Day of Remembrance in Cambodia – First They First Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers. A conversation with Loung Ung.

Born in 1970 to a middle-class family in Phnom Penh, Loung Ung was only five years old
when the Khmer Rouge Soldiers stormed into her city and her family was forced out of their
home in a mass evacuation to the countryside. By 1978, the Khmer Rouge had killed Ung's
parents and two of her siblings. In 1980, she and her older brother escaped by boat to Thailand,
where they spent five months in a refugee camp.

Join Loung Ung to learn more about her life surviving the Khmer Rouge genocidal regime in Cambodia. Learn about her bestselling book First They Killed My Father, and the critically acclaimed 2017 Netflix Original Movie directed by Angelina Jolie based on her memoir. Do not miss the opportunity to learn more about the genocide in Cambodia from one of its survivors.