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Dang, Quang Van and Do, Nam Thi
Vietnamese language interview with Dang Van Quang and Do Thi Nam of San Jose, California. Dang Van Quang was born in Soc Trang, Vietnam in 1929 and became a lieutenant general in the South Vietnamese Army. Do Thi Nam was born in 1932 and is from Can…
Nguyen, Kieu Chinh
Kieu Chinh describes her childhood living in Hanoi during WWII. When she was six, the Japanese bombed a hospital killing her mother and infant brother. She also recalls "the starvation" period during the Japanese occupation when her family moved to…
Tags: Arts or Design, Canada, Children in Wartime, Fall of Saigon 1975, Families in Wartime, Famine, Film, French Indochina War 1946–54, Geneva Conference 1954, Hanoi (VN), Humanitarian Organization, Japanese Occupation 1940-1945, Operation Passage to Freedom 1954-1955, Orange County (USA), Prison or Imprisonment, Refugees, Saigon (VN), Vietnam (Northern), World War II 1939-1945
Vu, Chieu-Anh
Chieu Anh Vu is a fashion designer and 1.5 generation Vietnamese with Dutch, Canadian and American identities. She describes her birth at sea after her parents escaped the Fall of Saigon on a ship. She expresses her passion for her career and…
Tags: 1.5 Generation, Anticommunism, Arts or Design, Australia, Boat People, Canada, Children in Wartime, Communism or Communists, Denmark, Embassy (USA), Fall of Saigon 1975, Families in Wartime, Fashion, Mental Health, Refugees, Refugees (by sea), Resettlement, San Diego CA (USA), Truong Xuan Ship, Vietnam War 1955-1975, Vietnamese Americans