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Bùi, Thi Hội-Hướng
Vietnamese language interview with Bùi Thị Hội-Hướng. Her husband was a filmmaker who was arrested after Saigon fell.
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were conducted by the Vietnamese American…
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were conducted by the Vietnamese American…
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…
Tags: Activism or Activist, Advocacy (Refugees), Amnesty International, El Cerrito CA (USA), History, Humanitarian Organization, Library or Archives, Nongovernmental Organization (NGO), Nonprofit Organization, Prison or Imprisonment, Reeducation or Detention Camp (VN), Vietnam (Contemporary), Vietnam War 1955-1975
Trần, Hiếu (Alex)
Vietnamese language interview with Hiếu (Alex) Trần, son of a political prisoner, who describes his experiences escaping Vietnam by boat.
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were conducted by the…
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were conducted by the…
Hình, Nong Van
Vietnamese language interview with Hinh Van Nong who discusses his experience as a political prisoner in North Vietnam. Before his capture, he was a special forces soldier for South Vietnam who was parachuted to North Vietnam to live as a spy in the…
Hoàng, Loan Phi
Vietnamese language interview with Hoàng Phi Loan, a former South Vietnamese school teacher who give an emotional account of the time she spent imprisoned in a communist reeducation camp.
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora…
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora…
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…
Tran, Ngoc Hue
Hue Ngoc Tran, nicknamed “Harry” by fellow officers, is a former lieutenant colonel with the 1st Infantry Division Army of the Republic of Vietnam. He discusses the battles he was involved in, including the Tet Offensive of 1968. He later received…
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…
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…
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…
Tags: Arts or Design, Canada, Children in Wartime, Fall of Saigon 1975, Families in Wartime, Famine, Film, French Indochina War 1946–54, Geneva Conference 1954, Hanoi (VN), Humanitarian Organization, Japanese Occupation 1940-1945, Operation Passage to Freedom 1954-1955, Orange County (USA), Prison or Imprisonment, Refugees, Saigon (VN), Vietnam (Northern), World War II 1939-1945