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Nguyen, Cam Van
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…
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were conducted by the…
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,…
Pham, Nga (Bich Huyen)
Vietnamese language interview with Nga Pham (Bich Huyen) who discusses her husband's imprisonment in a Vietnamese reeducation camp following the war.
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were…
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were…
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…
Siv, Sichan
Sichan Siv recalls his youth in Cambodia during the military conflicts in neighboring Vietnam and the emergence of the communist Khmer Rouge. He escaped the country for fear that he would endanger his family because of his education and his work as…
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…
La, Quy Huy
Vietnamese language interviews with La Huy Quy, whose family escaped from North to South Vietnam in the years following the Geneva Convention of 1954, which partitioned Vietnam at the 17th parallel.
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the…
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the…