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Nguyễn, Thiên Khâm Thượng
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…
Lê, Cự Hữu
Vietnamese language interview with Lê Hữu Cự.
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…
Nong, Truong Duy
English language interview with Nõng Duy Trường, who was born in Bình Thuận Province, Vietnam . His father was in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. Both of his parents were imprisoned and sent to reeducation camps after the war. After his mother…
Nguyen, Tri Tan
Vietnamese language interview Nguyen Tan Tri, a former attorney and General Secretary of the National Progressive Movement. He has worked tirelessly for human rights issues and the restoration of democracy in Vietnam. He was imprisoned in 1993 while…
Lê, Cương Đình
Vietnamese language with Lê Đình Cương, who was born in Quang Ngai, Vietnam. In 1952, Viet Cong forces took over his father's home to house their soldiers; the French released two bombs on the house, completely destroying it. In 1959, he joined the…
Nguyen, Nam Van
Vietnamese language interview with Nguyen Van Nam, who rose to the rank of Colonel in the South Vietnamese Army during the Vietnam War. He was forced to flee Vietnam during the Fall of Saigon and resettled in Texas, where he worked in a number of…
Nguyen, Loan
English language interview with Loan Nguyen.
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…
Trinh, Hoi
English language interview with Hoi Trinh. His parents were both teachers in Saigon, but were made to work in agriculture postwar. His family tried to escape several times and were caught. He recall being imprisoned for three months at eight years…
Nguyễn, Chí Thiện
Interview with Nguyễn Chí Thiện (1939–2012), a Vietnamese poet and activist who was jailed numerous times by the North Vietnamese during pre and post 1975 Vietnam for a total of 27 years. He often committed his poems to memory during his…
Nguyen,Van Toan (Andrew)
Nguyen Van Toan recalls his childhood in North Vietnam and his family moving to South Vietnam after the 1954 partition of the country. He was conscripted into the army at the age of twenty while he was in college. He lost both of his legs in a land…