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
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
Yesterday, U.S. Representatives Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (FL-25) and Joe Wilson (SC-2) joined VOC President and CEO Dr. Eric Patterson to re-launch the Congressional Victims of Communism Caucus at the U.S. Capitol. VOC is proud to partner with these distinguished leaders in… Read More
On Thursday April 10, U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) and Joe Wilson (SC-2) joined Dr. Eric Patterson, President and CEO of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, to re-launch the Congressional Victims of Communism Caucus. The representatives announced their priorities for the 119th Congress, from educating… Read More
Before the Baltic Ministerial event at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation on March 25, CNN conducted a remote interview with Baiba Braze, the Latvian Foreign Minister, at the VOC Museum. The Minister discussed Russia’s war in Ukraine, US sanctions… Read More
VOC Co-Founder Dr. Lee Edwards was posthumously honored on Monday, March 10 at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. Friends and family members of Dr. Edwards—including VOC’s President and CEO Dr. Eric Patterson and Chairman of the Board Elizabeth Spalding—were… Read More
WASHINGTON—The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) today announced the election of Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett and Andrea Lauer Rice to its Board of Trustees. Dr. Lantos Swett is a leading voice for human rights, religious freedom, and anticommunism across the… Read More
Dr. Eric Patterson, VOC’s President and CEO, toured the Romanian Parliament, schools, and cultural institutions earlier this week. As the government of Romania has taken an active interest in VOC’s curriculum, teacher training, and museum, Dr. Patterson visited to advance… Read More
VOC President and CEO Dr. Eric Patterson, Congressman Joe Wilson, Ukraine’s Chief of Chaplains Larysa Polyanska, and other officials gathered at the Holodomor Memorial as part of Ukraine Week commemorations. In his remarks, Patterson said, “I used to think about… Read More
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation is proud to announce that VOC Academic Council member Dr. Sean McMeekin has won the 2025 Conservative Book of the Year from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) for his new work To Overthrow the… Read More
