Đặng Thùy Trâm

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Đặng Thùy Trâm (born November 26, 1942 in Huế , Vietnam ; † June 22, 1970 in Đức Phổ, Quảng Ngãi , Vietnam) was a Vietnamese doctor. She worked as a military surgeon for North Vietnam during the Vietnam War . At the age of 27, she was killed by US troops under unexplained circumstances while walking a path in the Ba Tơ jungle in Quảng Ngãi province in south -central Vietnam . Her war diaries, which span the last two years of her life, gained international attention after their publication in 2005.

Diaries

One of Trâm's handwritten diaries fell into the hands of US forces in December 1969. After her death in handgun skirmish on June 22, 1970, Frederic (Fred) Whitehurst, a 22-year-old intelligence officer, captured a second diary. Whitehurst refused to order the diaries to be burned. He followed the advice of the South Vietnamese translator not to destroy them. He kept it for 35 years with the intention of returning it to the Trâms family at some point.

After his return to the United States, Whitehurst's search for Trâm's family was initially unsuccessful. After earning a PhD in chemistry, he joined the FBI . However, he could not reach anyone from the Vietnamese embassy. In March 2005, Whitehurst and his brother Robert - also a Vietnam veteran - brought the diaries to a conference at Texas Tech University . There they met the photographer Ted Engelmann (also a Vietnam veteran), who offered to look for the family during his trip to Vietnam. With the support of Do Xuan Anh, an employee of the Quaker office in Hanoi , Engelmann was able to find Tram's mother Doan Ngoc Tram and thus the rest of the family.

In July 2005, Trâm's diaries were published in Vietnam under the title Nhật ký Đặng Thùy Trâm (Diaries of the Đặng Thùy Trâm). They quickly became bestsellers. More than 300,000 copies have been sold in less than a year. Trâm's writings have been compared to those of Anne Frank .

In August 2005, Fred and Robert Whitehurst traveled to Hanoi to meet Trâm's family. In October of that year, Trâm's family visited Lubbock to see the diaries archived in the Vietnam Archives at Texas Tech University, and then visited Fred Whitehurst and his family.

The diaries were translated into English and published in September 2007. They contain family photos and pictures from Trâm. Translations of the diaries have been published in at least sixteen different languages.

In 2009 a film by the Vietnamese director Đặng Nhật Minh about Đặng Thùy Trâm called Đừng Đốt ( Do not burn them ) was released.

Expenses (selection)

  • Đặng Thùy Trâm: Last night I dreamed of peace. The diary of Dang Thuy Tram . Harmony Books, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-307-34737-4 (English, Vietnamese: Nhật ký Đặng Thùy Trâm . Translated by Andrew X. Pham).
  • Đặng Thùy Trâm: Last night I dreamed of peace: a diary from the Vietnam War . Ed .: Gabriele Herbst. 1st edition. Krüger Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-8105-2029-6 (Vietnamese: Nhật ký Đặng Thùy Trâm . Translated by Gabriele Herbst, based on the English translation by Andrew X. Pham).

Movies

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bich Ngoc: The diary of Dr Tram. In: timeout. Supplement of the Vietnam Investment Review. Archived from the original on June 27, 2009 ; accessed on November 22, 2016 (English).
  2. ^ David McNeill: Vietcong Doctor's Diary of War, Sacrifice. In: OhmyNews International. english.ohmynews.com, October 10, 2005, accessed November 22, 2016 .
  3. ^ David McNeill: Diary of a Vietcong doctor: The Anne Frank of Vietnam. In: The Independent . October 7, 2005, archived from the original on September 6, 2008 ; accessed on November 22, 2016 (English).
  4. ↑ The Vietnam Center and Archive: Diaries of Dr. Dang Thuy Tram. Texas Tech University , vietnam.ttu.edu, accessed November 22, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Đặng Thùy Trâm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vietnamese doctor
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Huế
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1970
Place of death Đức Phổ