Karen Community Oral History Project: Interview with Ahmay Ya

Titles: Karen Community Oral History Project: Interview with Ahmay Ya (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Ahmay Ya was born in 1987 in Sanchaung in Rangoon, Burma. She graduated from the University in Burma in 2003-2004. She immigrated to the United States in 2008 as a Karen refugee. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Early life; her father the revolutionary Mahn Nyein Maung; family and how the Karen people name their children; her childhood in Rangoon; her mother working as a trader while her father was in prison; being questioned by the authorities; escaping from Burma; volunteering to help deliver babies, and helping other refugees; coming to the United States alone; getting an education and working in Minnesota; her father's book "Against the Storm: Across the Sea" and her father's imprisonment and release; hopes for herself and the Karen; working with the Karen in Minnesota and mental health issues;

Dates

• 11/05/2011 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Ya, Ahmay
• interviewer: Zander, David

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 138
• Accession Number: AV2011.44.4

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

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

Quantity: 1.5 hours compact disc 46 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 01:33:09 running time

Subjects

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