Phạm Thị Nga (Bích Huyền) Oral History

Vietnamese language interview with Nga Phạm (Bích Huyền) who discusses her husband's imprisonment in a Vietnamese reeducation camp following the war. -- Phạm Thị Nga, known by her pen name Bích Huyền, is a Vietnamese educator, writer, and radio journalist currently residing in Orange County, Southern California’s Little Saigon. In Vietnam before 1975, she taught and worked at the Saigon Department of Education. She married Nguyễn Quang Hân, a former chief of staff at the Dalat Military Political Academy—whom she met at a friend’s wedding—and together they started a family despite the complex challenges of a blended past and her husband’s subsequent imprisonment. After emigrating to the United States, she has become a respected voice in the Vietnamese community through her journalism and radio work, sharing her personal experiences of loss, separation, and resilience during and after the turbulent wartime years. Keywords: Phạm Thị Nga; Bích Huyền; educator; writer; radio journalist; Saigon Department of Education; Southern California; Little Saigon; Vietnam War; Nguyễn Quang Hân; Dalat Military Political Academy; imprisonment; blended family; immigrant; resilience; Vietnamese community. -- This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. http://vietdiasporastories.omeka.net Interviews were conducted by the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation as part of the national 500 Oral Histories Project. The interviewee has granted The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation copyright of the audio, video and photo materials and it is being made available for non-profit educational use.