ORAL STORIES

Photo: Lee-Daniel Tran

This project stems from our recognition of the urgency to preserve the stories of our Vietnamese elders. We wanted to create a platform for all members of our community, particularly for our elders to continue sharing their wisdom and lived experiences within our collective community.

Our efforts to document these stories will not only fill in gaps in the discourse about the Vietnamese Diaspora but will also contribute to the collective commemoration.

Photo: Aurora Lee

The goals of this project are to collect, archive, and preserve community and personal narratives. The histories and stories we are engaging with are those of displacement, survival, resilience, preservation and the reconstruction of the Vietnamese identities in families and individuals of the Vietnamese Diaspora.