Nhà Trịnh Văn Bô - Hoàng Thị Minh Hồ

In Hà Nội, one family's house became the place where a nation announced itself. The Trinh Van Bo-Hoang Thi Minh Ho House belonged to a bourgeois couple with patriotic convictions who later joined the party. In the autumn of 1945, they opened their home to the leadership of the revolution.

Ho Chi Minh himself stayed there from 25 August to early September 1945, together with members of the Party Central Committee. The family welcomed the guests and cared for them through those decisive days. In a second-floor room, their guest wrote the Declaration of Independence that the whole country would soon hear. The document marked the birth of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, today's Socialist Republic. On 2 September 1945, he read it aloud at Ba Dinh Square.

The family later donated the building to the state, and it stands protected as a historical site. Many objects connected to Ho Chi Minh's weeks under this roof are still there. Standing in the upstairs room where the words were first set down, you are close to the moment Vietnam began.