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Quach, Tien
Quach Tien was born in Saigon, Vietnam and left the country when he was three years old. He recalls the discrimination the family faced because his father had served in the ARVN (Army Republic of Vietnam). He became a US citizen in the late 1980s and…
Pham, Van Tue (Joseph)
Vietnamese language interview with Father Pham Van Tue. He describes working in a refugee camp in Southeast Asia and talks about issues among the youth.
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were…
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were…
Phạm, Nam Phú
Vietnamese language interview with Pham Phu Nam, who was born in Saigon in 1955, was a soldier for the South Vietnamese Army and fled the country by boat in 1984 and sought refuge in Pulao Bidong, Malaysia.
This interview is part of the…
This interview is part of the…
Phạm, Ngọc Luy
Phạm Ngọc Luy was the captain of the Trường Xuân, a cargo ship that he piloted to rescue over 3,000 fleeing Vietnamese refugees after the Fall of Saigon. As the ship sank on May 2, 1975, they appealed to the Danish ship, the Clara Maersk, and…
Le, Paul
Vietnamese language interview with Paul Le, who discusses his work on an American Airforce base in Cam Ranh, postwar experiences and what lead him to escape from Vietnam by boat.
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital…
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital…
Ut, Huynh Cong (Nick)
Huỳnh Công Út, known as Nick Ut, recounts his experiences as a photojournalist and his Pulitzer-prize-winning photo, that of the napalm bombing of the village of Trang Bang, where he photographed a nine-year-old unclothed and badly burned Kim Phuc…
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…
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…
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…
Nguyen, Nam (Michael)
Father Michael Nam Nguyen describes his experiences living in a Catholic community under communist rule during the aftermath of the Fall of Saigon. His family escaped by boat to a refugee camp in Malaysia before being resettled in the United States.…