Dith Pran Holocaust Awareness Project

{{Short description|American non-profit organization}}

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The Dith Pran Holocaust Awareness Project is an American non-profit organization, founded in 1994 by Killing Fields survivor Dith Pran to educate the world about the genocide that took place in Cambodia during the reign of the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1979.{{cite book|title=Britannica Book of the Year 2009|date=March 2009|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.|isbn=9781593392321|page=124|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IaecAAAAQBAJ&q=Dith+Pran+Holocaust+Awareness&pg=PA124|language=en}} The organization also keeps photographic records to help Cambodians who are searching for missing family members.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/01/cambodia.pressandpublishing|title=Dith Pran|last=Brown|first=Kerry|newspaper=The Guardian|date=1 April 2008|access-date=28 November 2021}}{{cite book|last1=Bartrop|first1=Paul Robert|title=A Biographical Encyclopedia of Contemporary Genocide: Portraits of Evil and Good|year=2012|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9780313386787|page=74|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BleF7tl_rbUC&q=Dith+Pran+Holocaust+Awareness&pg=PA74|language=en}} Dith Pran headed the organization until his death in 2008, when his widow Kim DePaul assumed that position.