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Nguyễn, Thị Hạnh Nhơn
Nguyen Thi Hanh Nhon was born in 1927 in Hue, Vietnam. Her father was a high-ranking official under Emperor Bao Dai. Under the French regime, she served in the corps of females assistants, which later became the corps of female soldiers under the…
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…
Nguyen, Thuy Duong
Thuy "Lisa" Duong Nguyen was a refugee whose family lived in Hong Kong for three years before resettling in Australia. She speaks about her advocacy work with Vietnamese refugees in Southeast Asia, especially in Cambodia. Lisa is the founder of…
Nguyen, Nam Loc
Nam Loc Nguyen discusses his involvement as director for the Immigration and Refugee department for Catholic Charities, in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He begins with the story of how he, himself, was a refugee that fled from Saigon on April 27,…
Kumar, T
T Kumar work as Director for International Advocacy for Amnesty International USA. Investigations into human rights abuses in Vietnam have been difficult given the limited access in an official capacity to the country, so the organization has…
Denney, Stephen
Stephen Denney, from the UC Berkeley Library, Main Library, discusses human rights issues in Vietnam, an interest that he cultivated from his fourteen-year tenure working in the Indochina Archives with Douglas Pike. He co-authored a book along with…
Khúc, Minh Thơ
Vietnamese-language interview with Khuc Minh Tho, President of the FVPPA (Families of Vietnamese Political Prisoners Association), and board member of The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation. She recalled how Vietnamese American organizations…
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…
Rosenblatt, Lionel
Lionel Rosenblatt discusses his experiences as a former foreign service officer with the CORDS program in Vietnam, whose goal was to gain support from the rural population for the government of South Vietnam. He organized a way to evacuate by air…
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…