On Wednesday, October 22, 2025, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation hosted its first Ladies Night at the Museum, a discussion and reception featuring VOC Chairman, Dr. Elizabeth Spalding, and Chinese Cultural Revolution survivor, Xi Van Fleet. Opening remarks were… Read More
On Wednesday, October 22, 2025, Dr. Elizabeth Edwards Spalding, Chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) and Founding Director of the Victims of Communism Museum, was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary at the Embassy of Hungary… Read More
Leading China scholars, practitioners, and policymakers will discuss Beijing’s evolving threat at Day Two of VOC’s China Forum on October 28, now at the Willard InterContinental. Join House China Select Committee Chairman Rep. John R. Moolenaar and Ranking Member Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Ambassador Sam Brownback, Professor Frank… Read More
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) is proud to announce Dr. Sean McMeekin as a 2025 recipient of the Lee Edwards Award for Outstanding Scholarship. VOC’s signature honor for academic achievement, the Lee Edwards Award, recognizes leading minds in… Read More
José Daniel Ferrer, a long-time dissident against the communist regime in Cuba, and a VOC Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom awardee, is now in the United States following action by the U.S. government “after suffering years of abuse, torture, and threats… Read More
Watch as VOC’s Matthew Robertson exposes China’s murder-for-organ industry. In this new interview with American Thought Leaders, Robertson, a China Studies Research Fellow at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, breaks down how the CCP “created a market in the… Read More
Please join the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and Florida International University’s Cuban Research Institute, CasaCuba, and FIU in Washington D.C. Center on Tuesday, October 21 at the Victims of Communism Museum for a film screening of Cuba’s Eternal Night. What… Read More
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation joined a group of leading civil society organizations to raise the alarm about the systemic human rights abuses of political prisoners in Hong Kong. Read the full letter, addressed to the High Commissioner Volker… Read More
On Thursday, September 18, VOC’s Underworld Threats in the Caribbean panel, moderated by Rodrigo Diamanti, founder and president of Un Mundo Sin Mordaza, brought together Rosa María Payá, Pedro Urruchurtu, and Ronna Rísquez to discuss the regional impact of authoritarian… Read More
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) will honor the legacy of the Declaration of Independence with an essay contest that will teach students about freedom movements that directly cited or paraphrased the Declaration of Independence. This will demonstrate to… Read More
