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Trần, Tiến Văn
Vietnamese language interview with Trần Văn Tiến.
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 oral…
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 oral…
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…
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…
Doan, Bich Lien
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…
This interview is part of the Vietnamese…
Nguyen, Dao Anh
Anh Dao T. Nguyen is a realtor and coordinator for the Southeast Asian Fisherfolk Association, an organization founded in response to the Gulf of Mexico BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, fire, oil spill and cleanup.
This interview is part…
This interview is part…
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, 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,…
Tougher, Wendy Tuyet
Wendy Tuyet Tougher was a refugee following the Fall of Saigon, when her family escaped by boat when she was eleven years old. She recalls her impoverished conditions and the desperation that caused her family to flee, the difficulties maintaining…