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Duong, Nguyet Anh
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…
Tang, Can
Can Tang worked with the United States CIA during the Vietnam War. Postwar, he was imprisoned in a reeducation camp by the new communist government until his family bribed an official to release him in 1983. He escaped Vietnam in a small boat from…
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…
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…
Quitugua, David
Monsignor David Quitugua recalls Vietnamese refugees that came to Guam, an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States which temporarily hosted 100,000 Vietnamese in 1975. At that time, the Catholic Church sponsored about 3,000…
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, 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…
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…
Tang, Khanh Duc
Khanh Duc Tang describes his escape from Vietnam with his father, Can Tang, his mother and sister when he was fifteen years old in a small boat from My Tho in April of 1983. His sister was abducted by Thai fishermen along with three other young…
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,…