Yesterday I wrote about the Choeung Ek (Killing Fields) site of memory here in Cambodia. Today, I turn to the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (S-21 Prison) in downtown Phnom Penh. Tuol Sleng is in better shape than Choeung Ek, probably due to it’s location in the city rather than out in the countryside, and the…
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Where the Present Lies Heavily on the Past
This past weekend I visited the main sites of memory from the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s—the Tuol Sleng (S-21) prison in Phnom Penh and the Choeung Ek extermination site just outside the city. For anyone who has spent as much time as I have teaching about the Holocaust of European Jewry, I thought I…