US EditionFall of Saigon 50th anniversary: How the loss of a homeland forever changed Orange County
- On April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops captured Saigon, ending the Vietnam War and unifying the country under a communist regime.
- The fall of Saigon triggered a mass exodus of refugees, including many who fled by boat to escape starvation and political oppression under the new government.
- Thousands of Vietnamese refugees settled in Southern California, especially Orange County’s Westminster, where they established Little Saigon, a cultural and political community hub.
- By 2022, Vietnamese Americans comprised about 7% of Orange County’s population, with Little Saigon influencing local cuisine and electing representatives at every government level.
- Fifty years later, the community commemorates the fall of Saigon while many Vietnamese in Vietnam remain deprived of basic rights under Communist Party rule.
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Vietnamese Americans gather at Georgia senior center to mark 50th anniversary of fall of Saigon • Georgia Recorder
Von Tran speaks at a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. Ross Williams/Georgia RecorderDozens of Vietnamese Americans gathered at a senior center in Norcross Wednesday to mark the 50th anniversary of what Von Tran called a dark day in history. “It’s a day of suffering, of separations of family, of death, of thousands and hundreds of thousands killed and forced into reeducation camps and imprisoned, Holocaust-style, if yo…
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Little Saigon commemorates 50th anniversary of fall of Saigon with bittersweet ceremony
It was an overcast morning Wednesday in Westminster, much like it was 50 years ago to the day in Saigon, when the South Vietnamese capital fell to communist forces and the last American troops left the city with as many allies as they could evacuate. Doan Hoang Curtis was just a toddler on April 30, 1975, when she was airlifted with her mother from the Defense Attaché Office in Saigon to the U.S.S. Hancock, which was waiting for evacuees in the …
50 years later, the legacy of Black April haunts us
It was on this date, half a century ago, that Saigon fell to the communist North Vietnamese. While it brought an end to a brutal war in which millions of people lost their lives, the Vietnam war left a lasting impact on the millions more who were displaced, traumatized and who have remained under one-party rule of the Communist Party of Vietnam. Indeed, while the horrors of communist regimes often seem like a relic of a time long ago, the people…
(S+) Vietnam: The terror chased them out of the country, the storm drove them into each other's arms
Humiliated, imprisoned, starved: With the fall of Saigon 50 years ago, the Hatz began to dissidents. My and Huan fled – and found each other on the high seas. Here they tell their story for the first time.
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