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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…
Tougher, Wendy Tuyet
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…
Dong, Minh Quang
Father Quang Dong recalls his experiences escaping Vietnam with over sixty passengers on a boat for seven days and six nights. A Thai ship dropped them off near Malaysia where they were set up in a refugee camp in Pulau Bidong. He describes his…
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.…
Vo, Hubert
Hubert Vo talks about his experiences as a Texas state representative for district 149. He is currently the first and only Vietnamese American to be elected to the Texas legislature.
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora…
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora…
Le, Roger
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.
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Nguyen, Nghiem Van
Vietnamese language interview with Nguyen Van Nghiem, pastor at Mary Queen of Vietnam Church in New Orleans. He describes his experiences fleeing Vietnam by boat.
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive.…
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive.…
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…
Hoang, Khanh Han (Kathy)
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,…
Nguyen, Hung Van (Peter)
Nguyen Van Hung (Peter) was born in 1958 and left Vietnam as a "boat person" in 1979. He first settled in Japan before going to Taiwan in 1988 as a missionary and then to Australia to attend seminary and to be ordained as a Catholic priest. He has…