First They Killed My Father
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What’s it about?
A five-year-old girl's world shatters when the Khmer Rouge forces her family from their home into labor camps, where she must fight to survive the genocide that killed two million Cambodians.
You’ll learn
- Survival requires adapting to impossible circumstances
- Family bonds can endure even in the darkest times
- The human spirit's resilience against systematic cruelty
- Memory and storytelling as acts of resistance