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Gouri Sharma

‘We are all Vietnamese and came to Germany to build a better life’

Dieu Ly Hoang, left and Kien Nghi Ha, right, hail from different Vietnamese backgrounds and today live in the same Berlin neighbourhood [Giulio Ferracuti/Al Jazeera]

Berlin, Germany – In 1979, Kien Nghi Ha lived in Hanoi with his parents, who worked as electricians at a power plant, and his 12-year-old sister in a one-bedroom apartment.

They shared the toilet and an outdoor kitchen area along with their neighbours. One of them, an elderly woman, would sometimes look after Ha, then seven years old, and his sister.

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