On July 21, 2026, the Honorable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who fled communism in Cuba as a child and became the first Hispanic woman elected to Congress in America, provided the keynote address at VOC’s Captive Nations Summit. Read her full remarks… Read More
Every year, VOC commemorates what happened on June 4, 1989, when the Chinese Communist Party crushed a massive pro-democracy movement by sending tanks into Tiananmen Square. Beijing has since erased all mention of June 4 from its history. We still… Read More
On May 29, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation was honored to formally present the 2019 Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom, awarded to the late Kornel Morawiecki, to his son and former Prime Minister of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki. Kornel Morawiecki was… Read More
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation was honored to participate in the annual meeting of the Platform for European Memory and Conscience in Katowice, Poland. VOC is one of over 70 museums and related organizations that make up the Platform…. Read More
On Wednesday, May 15, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, in partnership with the Ben Franklin Fellowship, held a book talk with Ambassador Sam Brownback, the former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, on his newly published book, China’s War on Faith. This… Read More
Join the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, the Catholic Information Center (CIC), and the Saint Gabriel Institute for a film screening of No Priests Left. Presented by the Catholic Information Center, No Priests Left, explores the persecution of Catholic priests under Russian… Read More
On Thursday, March 26, Diana Nausėdienė, the First Lady of Lithuania, visited the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. Nausėdienė, her delegation, and officials from the Embassy of Lithuania toured the Victims of Communism Museum, led by VOC Trustee Ambassador Aldona… Read More
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation was proud to host former EU Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief, Dr. Jan Figel, and Dr. John Eibner, International President of Christian Solidarity International, along with other friends, today at the… Read More
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation was honored to host a fireside chat with Professor Amos N. Guiora on Communist Crimes of Complicity: Collaborators, Bystanders, and Enablers in Communist Countries. Moderated by Eric Patterson, VOC’s President and CEO, the discussion explored how communist regimes… Read More
VOC Trustee Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett, co-founder and co-chair of the International Religious Freedom Summit, assessed the current state of global religious liberty this week at the 2026 IRF Summit in Washington, DC. Addressing experts and advocates for religious freedom,… Read More
