Interview with Sister Elizabeth Nghia |
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| Title : | Interview with Sister Elizabeth Nghia |
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| Creator : | Nghia, Elizabeth, 1945- | ||
| Source : | Oral History of Women's Political Activity, OH 250/3 | ||
| Date of creation : | 1994 | ||
| Additional Creator : | Chryssides, Helen | ||
| Format : | Oral History | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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| Copyright : | This item is reproduced courtesy of Sister Elizabeth Nghia. It may be printed or saved for research or study. Use for any other purpose requires written permission from Sister Elizabeth Nghia and the State Library of South Australia. To request approval, complete the Permission to publish form. |
| Description : |
Elizabeth Nghia Bui was born in North Vietnam. Her family fled to South Vietnam in 1954 and settled in Saigon. Elizabeth entered the order of the Lovers of the Holy Cross and trained first as a teacher and then as a social worker. In 1975 at the time of the fall of Saigon she was in charge of an orphanage which came under Communist control. Elizabeth escaped on board a fishing boat with 31 others in June 1976. After two weeks they were rescued and taken to Japan. From there Elizabeth decided to come to Australia. In the extract presented here she describes her flight from Vietnam. |
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| Period : | 1946-1979 |
| Further reading : | Australian Vietnam Forces National Memorial Vietnam , Canberra : Dept. of Veterans' Affairs, 2002 Crowe, Ambrose. The battle after the war : the story of Australia's Vietnam veterans, St. Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 1999 Doyle, Jeff, Jeffrey Grey, and Peter Pierce. Australia's Vietnam War, College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2002 McKay, Gary. Bullets, beans and bandages : Australians at war in Vietnam, St Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin , 1999 McKay, Gary. Viet Nam shots : a photographic account of Australians at war, St Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2002 Murphy, John. Harvest of fear : a history of Australia's Vietnam War, St Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 1993 Robinson, W. Courtland. Terms of refuge : the Indochinese exodus & the international response, London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by St. Martin's Press, 1998 Woodruff, Mark W. Unheralded victory : who won the Vietnam War?, London : HarperCollins, 2000 |
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