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Nguyen, Dao Anh
Anh Dao T. Nguyen is a realtor and coordinator for the Southeast Asian Fisherfolk Association, an organization founded in response to the Gulf of Mexico BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, fire, oil spill and cleanup.
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Nguyet, Cao Anh
Cao Anh Nguyet shares her family history as a descendant of the Nguyen dynasty, her experiences teaching after the communists gained control after 1975, her sponsorship to the U.S. and about her current journalism work.
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Phan, Chris
Chris Phan was born in the Vinh Long province in Vietnam. His dad and uncles had been involved in the military or politics in South Vietnam, but after 1975, his family was forced to move to a rural area during the land reforms. He remembers that his…
Le, Tay Cung
Cung Le explains how he escaped Vietnam as a child with his mother three days before the Fall of Saigon in 1975. They ended up in refugee camps in the Philippines and then Guam. They were resettled in San Jose, California, where discrimination and…
Kumin, Judith
Judith Kumin retired from a 32 year career working for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. She discusses the UNHCR response to the postwar Indochinese refugee crisis, including the Orderly Departure Program (1979 -1994) that helped to…
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,…
Lê, Sơn Thanh
Vietnamese language interview with Sơn Thanh Lê, who describes his experiences in a communist reeducation camp after the South Vietnamese surrender to the North Vietnamese government in 1975.
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Le, Luong
English and Vietnamese language interview with Luong Le, who describes life in Cam Ranh Airforce Base during the time that his father worked at a US base located there. He also describes what it was like postwar, including the discrimination of…
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.…
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…