• Title
  Item 1: Bun Chhay interview by Carol McKirdy, 13 April 2016
• Creator
  Carol McKirdy
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  13 April 2016
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9661036
• Physical Description
  1 audio file (1 hr., 39 min., 13 sec.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 khz, 24 bit)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Bun Chhay (1950-) was born in Battambang Province, Cambodia and arrived in Australia in 1983.
  
  Reference
  Library correspondence file
• Scope and Content
  In this interview, Cambodian-born, Bun Chhay, describes her early family life, marriage, experiences during the civil war (1970-1975) under the regime of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, and time spent in a Thai refugee camp. Bun also speaks about arriving in Australia as a humanitarian refugee where she worked in a factory 7 days a week, 12 hours per day for 22 years and the challenges she has faced learning English, making friends, shopping, and visiting a doctor, and the difficulties of raising children while she and her husband were both working long hours.
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Recorded at Gymea Community Centre, Gymea, New South Wales on 13 April 2016
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Chhay, Bun, 1950-
  
• Subject
  Chhay, Bun, 1950---Interviews.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20475072

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