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Lê, Cương Đình
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…
Nguyen, Joseph Quyet
Vietnamese languge interview with Nguyen Quyet (Joseph).
The Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive (ViDDA) is a grassroots collection of interviews conducted and supported through The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation (VAHF) to provide…
The Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive (ViDDA) is a grassroots collection of interviews conducted and supported through The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation (VAHF) to provide…
Cao, Quang Ánh
English language interview with Cao Quang Ánh from Louisiana. Cao is a native of Vietnam. His father was an officer in the South Vietnamese Army who was imprisoned after the fall of Saigon to communist North Vietnam in 1975. His mother raised their…
Dang, Hoan
English language interview with Hoan Dang, who was born in Saigon. He evacuated from from Saigon with his family in 1975 and was processed in a refugee camp in Guam.
The Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive (ViDDA) is a grassroots collection…
The Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive (ViDDA) is a grassroots collection…
Hoang, Khanh Han (Kathy)
Kathy Khan is the first Vietnamese American woman appointed to a full-time presiding judge position in Houston, Texas. She relates the multiple challenges that she has endured as a minority and a woman in her career. She escaped Vietnam on April 29,…
Nguyen, Tho V. (Thomas)
Thomas Nguyen was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1960. He was fifteen years old when South Vietnam fell. After the war, his family moved to a rural area to cultivate farmland that was then confiscated and made into a rubber tree plantation under the…
Hoang, Mong Thu (Megan)
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…
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…
Wuest, Ken
Ken Wuest, a former American soldier deployed to Vietnam, discusses his time there and the interesting circumstances of how he came to meet his daughter, Hoang Diem, whom he fathered while he was in Vietnam.
This interview is part of the…
This interview is part of the…
Hoang, Diem
Vietnamese language interview with Diem Hoang, who was born in Vietnam to a Vietnamese mother and US military father. She discusses her search to find her father.
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews…
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews…