Fifty-four years ago, American and Vietnamese women met in Jakarta. It was during the American War. One of the American women was Nancy Hollander. Now, she has just handed over all sorts of things to do with that time to the Vietnamese Women’s Museum.

Lawyer brings pieces of history back to Vietnam

American lawyer Nancy Hollander recently handed 450 documents, photographs and other memorabilia concerning the first meeting between the Vietnamese Women’s Union and the US Women Strike for Peace Organisation in Jakarta in 1965, to the Vietnamese Women’s Museum. Hollander is the only surviving American to have attended the meeting. Vân Hương spoke with her at the hand-over ceremony.

US defence lawyer Nancy Hollander kept historical documents about the friendship between Vietnamese and American women hidden in a box for decades before handling them to the Vietnamese Women’s Museum in Hà Nội yesterday.