Last Days
When Pran arrived in the United States he settled as a photographer for the New York Times. Dith also founded the Dith Pran Holocaust Awareness Project to inform people of the history of the Khmer Rouge Regime and the history of what he went through. He was diagnosed with cancer which he spoke about saying he was determined to fight against the illness and the odds of him surviving it. While he was sick, he spoke and wrote about his experiences with the Khmer Rouge. Three months after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer he died in New Brunswick, New Jersey on March 30, 2008.