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Adams, Alyssa
Alyssa Adams is the second wife of the late Eddie Adams, the combat photographer that won a Pulitzer prize for the image of General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon during the Vietnam War. He later regretted the damage the…
Duong, Nguyet Anh
Duong Nguyet Anh left Vietnam with her family on a helicopter piloted by her brother on April 28, 1975, before the Fall of Saigon. They were transferred both on small boats and naval ships that took them to Subic Bay in the Philippines, then to the…
Website, refugeecamps.net
A website with information about Southeast refugee camps and the experiences of individuals who lived, worked and waited to be admitted to other countries of resettlement. The website is crowd-sourced from users who share photos, comments and stories…
Amsden, Be Ba Thi
Vietnamese language interview with Be Ba Thi Amsden, who was a refugee from Vietnam who resettled in Guam, an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States which temporarily hosted 100,000 Vietnamese in a temporary camp in 1975.
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Nguyen, Cam Van
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…
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were conducted by the…
Tang, Can
Can Tang worked with the United States CIA during the Vietnam War. Postwar, he was imprisoned in a reeducation camp by the new communist government until his family bribed an official to release him in 1983. He escaped Vietnam in a small boat from…
Cao, Quang Ánh
English language interview with Cao Quang Ánh from Louisiana. Cao is a native of Vietnam. His father was an officer in the South Vietnamese Army who was imprisoned after the fall of Saigon to communist North Vietnam in 1975. His mother raised their…
Vu, Chieu-Anh
Chieu Anh Vu is a fashion designer and 1.5 generation Vietnamese with Dutch, Canadian and American identities. She describes her birth at sea after her parents escaped the Fall of Saigon on a ship. She expresses her passion for her career and…
Khuat, Chuong
English language interview with Chuong Khuat.
Le, Tay Cung
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…