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Nguyen Thuong Kham Thien, whose real name is Nguyen Dai Hai, was born in 1939 in Hanoi. During the 1954 exodus of nearly 1 million people from the North to the South, his relatives all boarded ships going south. However, his father did not let the…

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…

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…

Vietnamese language interview with Doan Bich Lien, who describes her postwar experiences when she was assigned to work in a New Economic Zone by the communist government and her subsequent escape by boat.

This interview is part of the Vietnamese…

Nguyen Thanh Chieu also known by his pen name, Thanh Thuong Hoang, was a journalist, novelist, and war correspondent in Vietnam between 1953 and 1975. His grandfather and father were both part of the anti-colonial resistance. He recounts what he…