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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Tran, William Nhan]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Vietnam War, 1961-1975]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral biography]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[English language interview with William Nhan Tran.<br />
<br />
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 history resources for students, researchers, the general public about the Vietnamese community living abroad. These interviews were conducted and filmed entirely by volunteers as part of the national 500 Oral Histories Project.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[English language interview with William Nhan Tran.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[William Nhan Tran]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[500 Oral Histories Project]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2019-07-18 uploaded to archive]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2011-03-05]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:dateAccepted><![CDATA[2011-03-05]]></dcterms:dateAccepted>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Interviewer: Nina Lu]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[The creator for this material has granted The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation copyright of the audio, video and photo materials. It is being made available for non-profit educational use.]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:accessRights><![CDATA[Public Access Granted]]></dcterms:accessRights>
    <dcterms:license><![CDATA[Deed of Gift]]></dcterms:license>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[This oral history material was born digital.]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Sound recording]]></dcterms:type>
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    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[Tran, William Nhan interview by Nina Lu, March 5, 2011. Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation oral history interviews. Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive, 2019.]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://vietdiasporastories.omeka.net/items/show/140">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Hoang, Khanh Han (Kathy)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Vietnam War, 1961-1975]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral biography]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Kathy Khan is the first Vietnamese American woman appointed to a full-time presiding judge position in Houston, Texas. She relates the multiple challenges that she has endured as a minority and a woman in her career. She escaped Vietnam on April 29, 1975 along with her husband, her premature one-month-old and 18 month old baby. She describes how they found a ship amidst gunfire and chaos that took them to safety, and eventually were processed in a refugee camp and sponsored to resettle in the United States. <br />
<br />
This interview is part of the the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were conducted by the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation as part of the national 500 Oral Histories Project. <br />
<br />
Additionally, this interview was recorded in the process of producing VIETNAMERICA, a feature-length film and follow-up to the short documentary, Master Hoa&#039;s Requiem. Not all interview materials were included in the final film. The film follows Master Hoa back to Southeast Asia to search for the graves of his wife and two children. Hoa escaped Vietnam in 1981 on a boat with his family and friends. He is the sole survivor.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Kathy Khan is the first Vietnamese American woman appointed to a full-time presiding judge position in Houston, Texas. She relates the multiple challenges that she has endured as a minority and a woman in her career. She escaped Vietnam on April 29, 1975 along with her husband, her premature one-month-old and 18 month old baby. She describes how they found a ship amidst gunfire and chaos that took them to safety, and eventually were processed in a refugee camp and sponsored to resettle in the United States. ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Khanh Han Bao Hoang (Kathy)]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[500 Oral Histories Project]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-02-18<br />
2011-03-05]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2013-02-18<br />
2011-03-05]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:dateAccepted><![CDATA[2011-03-05]]></dcterms:dateAccepted>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Interviewer 2013: Nancy Bui<br />
Videographer: Nghia Tran]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Interviewer 2011: Bui Dang Khoa (Scott)]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[The creator of this material has granted The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation copyright to this audio, video and photo material. It is being made available for non-profit educational use.]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:accessRights><![CDATA[Public Access Granted]]></dcterms:accessRights>
    <dcterms:license><![CDATA[Deed of Gift<br />
]]></dcterms:license>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[This oral history material was born digital, with original sound in wav, original moving image in mvi and original text in doc. The materials were converted into mp3, mp4 and pdf for online access.]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[This oral history material was born digital and saved to external hard drive.]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Sound recording]]></dcterms:type>
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    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[Hoang, Khanh Han Bao (Kathy), interview by Scott Bui on March 5, 2011 and Nancy Bui on February 18, 2013. Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation oral history interviews, 2017, Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive.]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://vietdiasporastories.omeka.net/items/show/16">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Nguyen, Dat]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Dat, Nguyen]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Vietnam War, 1961-1975]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Refugees]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Vietnamese Americans]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Dat Nguyen discusses the obstacles he faced while pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician and songwriter  despite being blind from birth, orphaned at the age of five and living in impoverished conditions in Vietnam.  In 1989, he applied to immigrate to the United States through the American Homecoming Act or Amerasian Homecoming Act, an Act of Congress giving preferential immigration status to children in Vietnam born of U.S. fathers. In 2007, he performed with his hero and inspiration, Stevie Wonder. He has also created a foundation to support people with talent that are disabled. He plays songs that he wrote on his guitar and describes how he uses music to heal and impart positive messages to people around the world, especially young people and those with disabilities.<br />
<br />
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were conducted by the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation as part of the national 500 Oral Histories Project. <br />
<br />
Additionally, this interview was recorded in the process of producing VIETNAMERICA, a feature-length film and follow-up to the short documentary, Master Hoa&#039;s Requiem. Not all interview materials were included in the final film. The film follows Master Hoa back to Southeast Asia to search for the graves of his wife and two children. Hoa escaped Vietnam in 1981 on a boat with his family and friends. He is the sole survivor.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Dat Nguyen discusses the obstacles he faced while pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician and songwriter  despite being blind from birth, orphaned at the age of five and living in impoverished conditions in Vietnam.  In 1989, he applied to immigrate to the United States through the American Homecoming Act or Amerasian Homecoming Act, an Act of Congress giving preferential immigration status to children in Vietnam born of U.S. fathers. In 2007, he performed with his hero and inspiration, Stevie Wonder. He has also created a foundation to support people with talent that are disabled. He plays songs that he wrote on his guitar and describes how he uses music to heal and impart positive messages to people around the world, especially young people and those with disabilities.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Dat Nguyen]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[500 Oral Histories Project]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-08-03]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2012-08-03]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:dateAccepted><![CDATA[2012-08-03]]></dcterms:dateAccepted>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Interviewer: Nancy Bui]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Audio and Video Recorder: Nghia Tran]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[The creator for this material has granted The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation copyright of the audio, video and photo materials. It is being made available for non-profit educational use.]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:accessRights><![CDATA[Public Access Granted]]></dcterms:accessRights>
    <dcterms:license><![CDATA[Deed of Gift]]></dcterms:license>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[This oral history material was born digital, with original sound in wav, original moving image in mvi and original text in doc. The materials were converted into mp3, mp4 and pdf for online access.]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[This oral history material was born digital and saved to external hard drive.]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[oral histories]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Sound recording]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Still Image]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Moving image]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[Dat, Nguyen, interview by Nancy Bui. August 3, 2012. Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation oral history interviews, 2017, Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive.]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></dcterms:coverage>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[United States]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Nguyen, Thuy Duong  ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Vietnamese Australian]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Refugees]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Vietnam War, 1961-1975]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Thuy &quot;Lisa&quot; 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 Senhoa Foundation, a nonprofit organization that works with vulnerable persons and survivors of human trafficking in Cambodia. She graduated from a Bachelor of Law and Master of Laws from the University of Sydney. After a short stint in corporate law, Lisa left Australia to volunteer as a legal representative and advocate for stateless Vietnamese refugees remaining in the Philippines. Since this time, she has worked extensively on issues relating to refugee protection. From 2007 to 2009, she was the Executive Director of VOICE in Washington D.C. and worked on overseeing the resettlement of nearly 300 stateless Vietnamese in the Philippines to Canada. In 2010, Lisa founded and became the first Executive Director of Senhoa Foundation. For her community service work, she was awarded the Order of Australia Association Medal for Community Services and Young Australian-Vietnamese of the Year. Outside of her nonprofit work, Lisa is a host for Asia Entertainment Inc., a variety musical production company with over 4 million viewers worldwide and top promoter of Vietnamese artists and entertainers. Lisa also hosts the Asia Channel, a popular show on Saigon Broadcasting Television Network (SBTN), based in California and is available on Comcast and DirecTV.<br />
<br />
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were conducted by the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation as part of the national 500 Oral Histories Project. <br />
<br />
Additionally, this interview was recorded in the process of producing VIETNAMERICA, a feature-length film and follow-up to the short documentary, Master Hoa&#039;s Requiem. Not all interview materials were included in the final film. The film follows Master Hoa back to Southeast Asia to search for the graves of his wife and two children. Hoa escaped Vietnam in 1981 on a boat with his family and friends. He is the sole survivor.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Thuy &quot;Lisa&quot; 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 Senhoa Foundation, a nonprofit organization that works with vulnerable persons and survivors of human trafficking in Cambodia. She graduated from a Bachelor of Law and Master of Laws from the University of Sydney. After a short stint in corporate law, Lisa left Australia to volunteer as a legal representative and advocate for stateless Vietnamese refugees remaining in the Philippines. Since this time, she has worked extensively on issues relating to refugee protection. From 2007 to 2009, she was the Executive Director of VOICE in Washington D.C. and worked on overseeing the resettlement of nearly 300 stateless Vietnamese in the Philippines to Canada. In 2010, Lisa founded and became the first Executive Director of Senhoa Foundation. For her community service work, she was awarded the Order of Australia Association Medal for Community Services and Young Australian-Vietnamese of the Year. Outside of her nonprofit work, Lisa is a host for Asia Entertainment Inc., a variety musical production company with over 4 million viewers worldwide and top promoter of Vietnamese artists and entertainers. Lisa also hosts the Asia Channel, a popular show on Saigon Broadcasting Television Network (SBTN), based in California and is available on Comcast and DirecTV.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Thuy Duong Nguyen]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[500 Oral Histories Project]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-07-27]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2012-07-27]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:dateAccepted><![CDATA[2012-07-27]]></dcterms:dateAccepted>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Interviewer: Nancy Bui]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Audio and Video Recorder: Ted Acheson]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[The creator for this material has granted The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation copyright of the audio, video and photo materials. It is being made available for non-profit educational use.]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:accessRights><![CDATA[Public Access Granted]]></dcterms:accessRights>
    <dcterms:license><![CDATA[Deed of Gift]]></dcterms:license>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[This oral history material was born digital, with original sound in wav, original moving image in mvi and original text in doc. The materials were converted into mp3, mp4 and pdf for online access.]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[This oral history material was born digital and saved to external hard drive.]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
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    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[Thuy, Nguyen Duong, interview by Nancy Bui. July 27, 2012. Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation oral history interviews, 2017, Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive.]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Cambodia]]></dcterms:coverage>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Phillipines]]></dcterms:coverage>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Australia]]></dcterms:coverage>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></dcterms:coverage>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Hong Kong]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Tougher, Wendy Tuyet]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Vietnam War, 1961-1975]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oral biography]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Vietnamese Americans]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[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 family relationships amidst war and poverty and the fears of growing up during wartime. Wendy also describes her fraught relationship with her adopted family and her interracial marriage with a young man that she met while living in Guam. They have three children together and currently live in the mainland United States. <br />
<br />
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were conducted by the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation as part of the national 500 Oral Histories Project. <br />
<br />
Additionally, this interview was recorded in the process of producing VIETNAMERICA, a feature-length film and follow-up to the short documentary, Master Hoa&#039;s Requiem. Not all interview materials were included in the final film. The film follows Master Hoa back to Southeast Asia to search for the graves of his wife and two children. Hoa escaped Vietnam in 1981 on a boat with his family and friends. He is the sole survivor.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[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 family relationships amidst war and poverty and the fears of growing up during wartime. Wendy also describes her fraught relationship with her adopted family and her interracial marriage with a young man that she met while living in Guam. They have three children together and currently live in the mainland United States. ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Wendy Tuyet Tougher]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[500 Oral Histories Project]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-13]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2012-05-13]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:dateAccepted><![CDATA[2012-05-13]]></dcterms:dateAccepted>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Interviewer: Nancy Bui]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Audio and video recorder: Vu Tran]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[The creator for this material has granted The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation copyright of the audio, video and photo materials. It is being made available for non-profit educational use.]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:accessRights><![CDATA[Public Access Granted]]></dcterms:accessRights>
    <dcterms:license><![CDATA[Deed of Gift]]></dcterms:license>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[500 Oral Histories Project of The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[This oral history material was born digital, with original sound in wav, original moving image in mvi and original text in doc. The materials were converted into mp3, mp4 and pdf for online access. ]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[This oral history material was born digital and saved to external hard drive.]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
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    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Text]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[Tougher, Wendy Tuyet, interview by Nancy Bui. May 12, 2012. Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation oral history interviews, 2017, Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. ]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></dcterms:coverage>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Guam]]></dcterms:coverage>
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