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VOC was honored to host Ji Seong-ho, a survivor of North Korea, a human rights activist, and a south Korean politician at the Victims of Communism Museum. Ji Seong-ho met with Dr. Patterson, VOC’s CEO and President, toured the museum where he is prominently featured, and watched his Witness Project documentary which explores his harrowing escape from communism.  

Dr. Elizabeth Spalding, Chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and Founding Director of the Victims of Communism Museum released two videos with Prager U on the history of Harry Truman’s atomic bomb decision and his quest to contain communism.

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation will participate in PEMC’s 2024 Annual Meeting and Conference, Crimes of Totalitarianism – Justice and Remembrance in the XXI Century, on May 15 through 17 in Vilnius, Lithuania.

This project aims to raise awareness of Cuban political prisoners by combining art, technology, and human rights.

On May 3, 2024, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) sent a letter to Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, urging him and the State Department to take action on the issue of organ trading in the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

VOC’s Ken Pope, Vice President for Academic Operations and Strategic Partnerships, participated in the National Association of Scholars and Civics Alliance’s launch of its Model K-12 History of Communism Standards, which provides guidelines for high school teachers to integrate the history of communism, world-wide and in America, into social studies courses.

VOC’s Chairman and Founding Director of the VOC Museum, Dr. Elizabeth Spalding, speaks with Steven Hayward on the Power Line Show about the VOC Museum and Hayward’s book on the Reagan presidency.

A leading China expert from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) testified before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China at a hearing on “Factories and Fraud in the PRC: How Human Rights Violations Make Reliable Audits Impossible.”   During the two-hour… Read More

This year, VOC is proud to present our Dissident Human Rights Award to Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett. 

On February 8, VOC hosted an exclusive event entitled “Voices for Freedom” which featured nearly a dozen witnesses of communism, including a keynote by Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares. He spoke about the stark differences between free countries and those under communist rule.