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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…

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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…

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Roger Le, a second generation Vietnamese American, shares his family history, including how his family was treated as second class citizens after the war and subsequently their family's escape from Vietnam to the Philippines on a boat.

This…

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Vietnamese language interview with Steven Le.

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…

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Cung Le explains how he escaped Vietnam as a child with his mother three days before the Fall of Saigon in 1975. They ended up in refugee camps in the Philippines and then Guam. They were resettled in San Jose, California, where discrimination and…

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Cam Van Nguyen discusses her journey from Hue to Dalat to Saigon, Vietnam before fleeing the country and settling in the United States.

This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were conducted by the…

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Vietnamese language interview with Master Hoa Tien Nguyen, who described his harrowing escape from postwar Vietnam on a boat, along with his family and many others.

This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive.…

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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.…

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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,…

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Thomas Nguyen was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1960. He was fifteen years old when South Vietnam fell. After the war, his family moved to a rural area to cultivate farmland that was then confiscated and made into a rubber tree plantation under the…
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