Guide to the Tuol Sleng confessions and photographs,
1991-1993

Collection Number: 4883

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
Phil McCray
Date completed:
March 1996
EAD encoding:
Mireille Lee, August 2000

© 2000 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Tuol Sleng confessions and photographs, 1991-1993
Collection Number:
4883
Quantity:
213 reels microfilm
Forms of Material:
Microfilms.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Transcripts of confessions obtained from prisoners at Tuol Sleng Prison, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Also, five thousand photographs of Tuol Sleng prisoners.
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Transcripts of confessions obtained from prisoners at Tuol Sleng Prison, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Also, five thousand photographs of Tuol Sleng prisoners.
PROVENANCE

The records in this collection were filmed under the direction of the Cornell University Library's John M. Echols Collection on Southeast Asia and the Department of Conservation and Preservation at the Tuol Sleng museum of Genocide in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, from January 1991 to April 1993. The confessions of some 4300 detainees comprising 400,000 pages of handwritten text in Khmer, as well as internal prison documents were filmed. This project was part of a larger effort to preserve and film Cambodian manuscripts at five locations in Phnom Penh.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Cornell University.--Library.--Echols Collection.
Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide (Phnom Penh, Cambodia).

Places:
Cambodia.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Restrictions on Use:
For personal research only. Not for commercial use.
Reproductions are not available, originals are owned by the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Cite As:
Tuol Sleng Prison Confessions and Photographs, #4883. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
RELATED MATERIAL

See also: Guide to Cambodia Documentation Commission Records (collection #4499)
CONTAINER LIST

Description
Container
Microfilm Reels
Confessions
 1-92
Materials in the cabinets, including Khmer Rouge periodicals
93-102
Confessions
 103-111
Materials in the cabinets, may include Khmer Rouge periodicals
112-115
Confessions
 116-184
Foreigners confessions
 185-187
Charts
 188
Retakes of defective reels
 189-197
Hu Nim and Takeo file plus other prison information outside of Tuol Sleng
198
Retakes of defective reels
 199-213