Nguyen, Trinh (Interview outline and video), 2009

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Title

Nguyen, Trinh (Interview outline and video), 2009

Creator

Contributor

Smither, James (Interviewer)
WKTV (Wyoming, Mich.)

Description

Trinh Nguyen was born in a rural village in the Mekong Delta of South Vietnam. After attending a school at a French military outpost, Nguyen went traveled to Saigon to go to college. After a single year of dentistry schooling, Nguyen joined the South Vietnamese police force, where he worked through the entirety of the Vietnam War. Following the Northern victory, the communists gathered all former employees of the South Vietnamese government, including Nguyen, and placed them in re-education camps. In reality, the camps were nothing more than prisons. Nguyen stayed in the camp until 1982 before his release and he and his family stayed in Vietnam until 1992, when they immigrated to the United States.

Date

2009-12-03

Rights

Publisher

Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives

Relation

Veterans History Project (U.S.)

Identifier

NguyenT

Format

application/pdf
video/mp4

Type

Moving Image
Text

Language

eng

Citation

Nguyen, Trinh, “Nguyen, Trinh (Interview outline and video), 2009,” Digital Collections, accessed December 22, 2024, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29290.
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