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Nguyen, Thuy Duong
Thuy "Lisa" Duong Nguyen was a refugee whose family lived in Hong Kong for three years before resettling in Australia. She speaks about her advocacy work with Vietnamese refugees in Southeast Asia, especially in Cambodia. Lisa is the founder of…
Nguyen, Dat
Dat Nguyen discusses the obstacles he faced while pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician and songwriter despite being blind from birth, orphaned at the age of five and living in impoverished conditions in Vietnam. In 1989, he…
Dong, Minh Quang
Father Quang Dong recalls his experiences escaping Vietnam with over sixty passengers on a boat for seven days and six nights. A Thai ship dropped them off near Malaysia where they were set up in a refugee camp in Pulau Bidong. He describes his…
Bui, Diem
Bui Diem was born in 1923 in Ha Nam. Along with many friends and family members, Bui Diem joined the Greater Vietnam Nationalist Party (GVNP) from a young age to fight the French for independence. At the beginning of the First Indochina War, VNP…
Lu, Anh Thu
Lu Anh Thu has been an active board member since 2003 for the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington D.C. The foundation was established in 1993 through a congressional act signed by President Clinton. The mission is to educate this…
Nguyen, Nam Loc
Nam Loc Nguyen discusses his involvement as director for the Immigration and Refugee department for Catholic Charities, in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He begins with the story of how he, himself, was a refugee that fled from Saigon on April 27,…
Huynh, Mylene T.
Mylene Huynh describes her childhood growing up in the beach city of Nha Trang during wartime. Her father was a physician that worked for the South Vietnamese. Her mother was a pharmacist. Her father later was place in a reeducation camp for one…
Nguyen, Nam (Michael)
Father Michael Nam Nguyen describes his experiences living in a Catholic community under communist rule during the aftermath of the Fall of Saigon. His family escaped by boat to a refugee camp in Malaysia before being resettled in the United States.…
Tran, Tuyet
Tuyet Tran describes the hectic last days before the Fall of Saigon, her escape by airplane to the refugee camp of Guam, and her life adjusting in the United States. She recounts her struggles raising three children in a new country, learning a new…
Ut, Huynh Cong (Nick)
Huỳnh Công Út, known as Nick Ut, recounts his experiences as a photojournalist and his Pulitzer-prize-winning photo, that of the napalm bombing of the village of Trang Bang, where he photographed a nine-year-old unclothed and badly burned Kim Phuc…