Cambodia and the Holocaust: Searching for Justice
Saturday, June 21, 8:30-3:30
Guthrie Theater, 818 South Second Street, MinneapolisMN55415
Workshop Includes:

  • Overview of the Cambodian Genocide –Dr. Ellen Kennedy, Interim Director, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota
  • Rebuilding Schools, Rebuilding Trust - Dr. Anne Dykstra, former director of UNICEF education programs in Cambodia and Iraq
  • Survivors’ Testimonies – Bunhkean Chhun
  • Justice Tribunals:Cambodia and the Holocaust – Rose Parks, Women’s Program, The Advocates for Human Rights
  • Lunch sessions:
  • Refugees and Crisis – Therese Gales, American Refugee Committee
  • The Legacy of the Cambodian Genocide and the Holocaust: the Next Generation - Rabbi Sim Glaser, son of Holocaust survivor; and Vuth Chhunn, son of Cambodian genocide survivor
  • Experiences of War and Genocide: Teaching Victimized Students – Mark Turbak, Center for Victims of Torture
  • Performance, “After a Hundred Years.” A short synopsis of the play:

Journalist Luke Newhall travels to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for a rare, career-making interview with Phan Mok, a Khmer Rouge general accused of heinous war crimes. On the eve of his United Nations tribunal, the general sits determined to defend his actions and rehabilitate his legacy of the era, as Narin Rath, a survivor of the Killing Fields, tells the gruesome tale of her survival, illustrating the history of guilt while suggesting a possibility for healing.
In grappling with the lies and truths of his interview subject, Newhall finds himself enmeshed in the life of photographer Sarah Whiting and her husband Tim Hedstrom, a prominent American doctor. Though Hedstrom appears devoted to the treatment of HIV/AIDS in this Third World country, a shocking truth reveals that it has been at the cost of betraying the ethical vows of his profession. As the characters' quests for truth intersect, they are drawn deeper into Cambodia's history and their own complicity in crimes past and present.

  • Post-play discussion: Acting company from “After a Hundred Years;” Ellen Kennedy, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota; Michael Kinghorn and Sheila Livingston, Guthrie Theater

This workshop is free and open to the public.
CEU credit is available for teachers. CLE credit is available for lawyers.
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