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Quan, Roger
Roger Quan was born in the Cho Lon District (Chinatown) in Saigon, Vietnam. He worked as a machinist. He was granted asylum to the U.S. through the Orderly Departure Program in 1988 and eventually settled near San Jose, California.
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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…
Duong, Nguyet Anh
Duong Nguyet Anh left Vietnam with her family on a helicopter piloted by her brother on April 28, 1975, before the Fall of Saigon. They were transferred both on small boats and naval ships that took them to Subic Bay in the Philippines, then to the…
Le, Roger
Roger Le, a second generation Vietnamese American, shares his family history, including how his family was treated as second class citizens after the war and subsequently their family's escape from Vietnam to the Philippines on a boat.
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Tang, Can
Can Tang worked with the United States CIA during the Vietnam War. Postwar, he was imprisoned in a reeducation camp by the new communist government until his family bribed an official to release him in 1983. He escaped Vietnam in a small boat from…
Vo, Hubert
Hubert Vo talks about his experiences as a Texas state representative for district 149. He is currently the first and only Vietnamese American to be elected to the Texas legislature.
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This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora…
Huynh, Mylene T.
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…
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…
Tran, Dinh Tru
Tru Dinh Tran was a Navy commander for the Republic of Vietnam. He recalls his experiences as an officer, taking refuge in Guam after the Fall of Saigon, and deciding to return to his family in Vietnam where he was imprisoned in a reeducation camp…