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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

In a wide-ranging conversation, Dr. Elizabeth Spalding, Chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) and Founding Director of the Victims of Communism Museum, sits down with Jack Fowler at the Daily Signal to confront the forgotten truths of… Read More

OverviewThis role is responsible for the overall logistics, coordination, planning, and execution ofevents with internal and external partners of the Museum, as well as visitor experiences atthe museum for specialty events. Diplomatic community and international partnerorganization engagement occurs on a… Read More

This Thanksgiving, we at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation have much to be grateful for. Every day, we get to tell the stories of the heroes who fight against communism. We tell these stories to the next generation of… Read More

Tune in as Milda Mataciunaite-Boyce, Director of Fellowships and Coalitions at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, joins the Vic Porcelli Show to discuss VOC, her experience as a witness of communism living in Soviet-occupied Lithuania, and how she is… Read More

On November 7, Victims of Communism Day, President Donald J. Trump proclaimed the week to be National Anti-Communism Week. As the proclamation reads: This week, our Nation observes Anti-Communism Week, a solemn remembrance of the devastation caused by one of… Read More

Listen as Dr. Elizabeth Edwards Spalding, Chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) and Founding Director of the Victims of Communism Museum, joins O’Connor & Company on WMAL to discuss Victims of Communism Day and the recent election… Read More

Tune in as Dr. Eric Patterson, President and CEO of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, joins Fox Business’ Lydia Hu to discuss VOC, the dangers of ‘class warfare’ rhetoric and policies, and why many fear that New York City… 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

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