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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…
Tags: 1.5 Generation, Anticommunism, Boat People, Children in Wartime, Fall of Saigon 1975, Families in Wartime, Freedom, Guam, Laurel MD (USA), Navy (USA), Philippines, Refugee Camp, Refugees, Refugees (Stateless), Research or Academics, Resettlement, Saigon (VN), Subic Bay (Philippines), Universities, University Students, Vietnam War 1955-1975, Vietnamese Americans
Phan, Chris
Chris Phan was born in the Vinh Long province in Vietnam. His dad and uncles had been involved in the military or politics in South Vietnam, but after 1975, his family was forced to move to a rural area during the land reforms. He remembers that his…
Le, Cindy
Cindy Le, a second generation Vietnamese American born in the United States, talks about her family history, particularly her father's service in the South Vietnamese Army and his subsequent thirteen-year imprisonment after the war. She describes her…
Doan, Sy Quoc
Vietnamese language interview with Doan Quoc Sy.
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…
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…
Hoang, Gia Ngoc
English language interview with Dr. Gia Ngoc Hoang.
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…
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…
Harper, Randall and Shirley
Dr. Randall Harper and Shirely Harper recall fond memories of their relationship with Dr. Duc Tran and pharmacist Tuyet Tran. They helped in the resettlement process for the Tran family, including gifting a used car to them so that the couple would…
Wang, Jason
Jason Wang, an Asian American studies major at UT Austin, describes how he became interested in Vietnamese American history by participating in an oral history project that he conducted as part of a course on Vietnamese Americans taught by Dr. Linda…
Le, Xuan Khoa
Le Xuan Khoa came to the United States as a refugee in 1975, and became president of the Southeast Asian Task Force (SEARAC). He became a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University School of International Studies (SAIS) in 1996 and in 2007, he…
Dang, Vo Thuy and Linda Trinh Vo
Linda Trinh Vo, (professor of Asian American Studies) and Thuy Vo Dang (project director for the Vietnamese American Oral History Project) describe the UC Irvine Southeast Asian Archive, that focuses on collecting materials about Cambodian, Laos and…
Hsu, Madeline
Dr. Madeline Hsu served as the director of the Center for Asian American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She details her research interests and her editorial work and speaks about the importance of Asian American studies as a field of…