Karen Community Oral History Project: Interview with Eh Thweet

Titles: Karen Community Oral History Project: Interview with Eh Thweet (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Eh Thweet was born in Burma in 1986. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Early life; Burmese military burning his village; struggle to pay for school; running from the Burmese army; finding food; landmines; fleeing to Thailand; living in a refugee camp in Thailand; religion; religious persecution; taking children from Burma to Thailand; coming to the United States; working for Catholic Charities; hopes of further education in Minnesota; Karen folktales.

Dates

• 11/05/2011 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Thweet, Eh
• interviewer: Zander, David

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 138
• Accession Number: AV2011.44.2

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Karen Community Oral History Project' <OH 138>

Quantity: 1 hour sound cassette 51 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 01:03:15 running time

Subjects

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