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Duong Nguyet Anh left Vietnam with her family on a helicopter piloted by her brother on April 28, 1975, before the Fall of Saigon. They were transferred both on small boats and naval ships that took them to Subic Bay in the Philippines, then to the…

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Vietnamese language interview with Duong Phuc, a journalist who fled Vietnam by boat in 1980 and landed in a refugee camp in Thailand.

The Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive (ViDDA) is a grassroots collection of interviews conducted and…

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Mong Hoang was sixteen years old during the Fall of Saigon. Previously, her family owned a restaurant that had served American troops near an airbase. She and her family was sent off to work in a rubber tree plantation as part of a communist…

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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…

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Vietnamese language with Lê Đình Cương, who was born in Quang Ngai, Vietnam. In 1952, Viet Cong forces took over his father's home to house their soldiers; the French released two bombs on the house, completely destroying it. In 1959, he joined the…

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Vietnamese language interview with Paul Le, who discusses his work on an American Airforce base in Cam Ranh, postwar experiences and what lead him to escape from Vietnam by boat.

This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital…

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Roger Le, a second generation Vietnamese American, shares his family history, including how his family was treated as second class citizens after the war and subsequently their family's escape from Vietnam to the Philippines on a boat.

This…

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Site of a demolished memorial dedicated to Vietnamese boat people who perished by sea or during resettlement and in gratitude for the efforts of the UNHCR, Red Cross, Malaysian Red Crescent Society, other world relief organizations, the Malaysian…

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The memorial depicts two Vietnamese children standing by a black granite sculpted boat filled with reflecting water and six lotus flowers.
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