Browse Items (32 total)

Mylene_Huynh_Photo.jpg
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…

Luong Le_Photo.jpg
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…

Le_Minh_Dao_Photo.jpg
Vietnamese language interview with Le Minh Dao, who was a South Vietnamese Army general who fought the last battle before the Fall of Saigon.

This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were conducted by…

Cung, Le.jpg
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…

Item178_Cam_Van_Nguyen_Photo.jpg
Cam Van Nguyen discusses her journey from Hue to Dalat to Saigon, Vietnam before fleeing the country and settling in the United States.

This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were conducted by the…

Item314_Nguyen_Cuoc_Cuong_Photo.JPG
Vietnamese language interview with Nguyễn Cuốc Cường.

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…

Item300_Jennifer_Lien-Huong_Dinh_Nguyen_Photo.JPG
English language interview with Jennifer Liên-Hương Đinh Nguyễn, who came to the United States as refugee when she was ten years old in 1975.

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

Kieu_Chinh_Nguyen_Photo.jpg
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…

Michael_Nam_Nguyen_Photo.jpg
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.…

Phong_Robert_Xuan_Nguyen_Photo.jpg
Vietnamese language interview with Robert Phong Xuan Nguyen, who fled Vietnam in 1975 after the communist takeover of Saigon in 1975. He resettled in New Orleans and experienced Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

This interview is part of the Vietnamese…
Output Formats

atom, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2