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Title: Oral History of Ho Van Khoi
Creator: Ho, Khoi Van
Contributor: Bui, Nancy
Date Created and/or Issued: 2010-05-25
Contributing Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Southeast Asian Archive
Collection: Viet Stories: Vietnamese American Oral History project
Rights Information: Copyrighted
This material is provided for private study, scholarship, or research. Transmission or reproduction of any material protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Contact the University of California, Irvine Libraries, Special Collections and Archives for more information (spcoll@uci.edu).
Description: Scope/Content: An oral history of Mr. Ho Van Khoi (Khoi Van Ho, western-style) who was born in 1949 in Go Cong, Vietnam. He spent his childhood in Go Cong and then lived in Saigon during his high school years. The oldest in a family of 10 kids, he described his family as being poor. In 1968 he volunteered to join the military training school in Thu Duc and described several of his deployments in Cambodia. After the war ended, he was imprisoned in reeducation camp for 4.5 years. His family escaped Vietnam by boat, passing through an Indonesia refugee camp, resettled in San Diego and then moved again to San Jose during the technology industry boom in California. He is active in political and cultural activities in the Bay Area Vietnamese American community.
Scope/Content: In 2008, the Vietnamese American community in Austin, along with VAHF, successfully collaborated with the University of Texas at Austin’s Center For Asian American Studies (CAAS) to establish a course on Vietnamese American history and culture, instructed by Ph.D. candidate Linda Ho Peché. Each student was required to complete an oral interview of a self-identified Vietnamese American. These oral histories became part of the 500 Oral History Project initiated by VAHF as its third most urgent collection, since many members of the first genera- tion of Vietnamese Americans are now elderly. With their passing, first-hand accounts of the Vietnamese American immigration experience would be lost.
Type: moving image
Format: 3 mp4 video files; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf transcription Vietnamese; 1 jpg image file
Extent: 50:51
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8zz7x
VAHF0001
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/5225
Language: English
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Vietnamese
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Subject: Anticommunism | Boat People | Children | Escape | Family | Farming | Reeducation camp | Refugee camp (Indonesia) | Technician | Viet Cong | Viet Kieu | Vietnam War | San Diego County, California | San Jose, California | Vietnam, Southern | Saigon (Vietnam) | Vung Tau (Vietnam)
Time Period: 1940-1949
Relation: Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation Oral Histories Project

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