A Memorial to the Victims of Communism [View All]

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The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, a non-profit organization, was established by an Act of Congress to build a memorial in Washington, DC to commemorate the more than 100 million victims of communism; to honor those who successfully resisted communist tyranny; to educate current and future generations about communism's crimes against humanity; and to pay tribute to those who helped win the Cold War.

Foundation Update
By Dr. Lee Edwards, Chairman
April 13, 2005
We have an official site for our Memorial to the more than 100 million victims of communism.

After nearly 18 months of hearings before federal and city commissions, we received final, official approval on April 7 of our site at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., New Jersey Avenue, N.W., and G Street, N.W. Our site is across from the Georgetown University Law Center and only two blocks from Union Station and the Metro. There is a clear view of the U.S. Capitol, topped by the famous Statue of Freedom.

There are many people to thank for this crucial step, including officials of the National Park Service, principals of Hartman-Cox Architects, and especially Lawrence Thomas of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 6C, who personally made the motion to approve the site at a crucial ANC meeting.

The next step is to secure official approval of our design concept. We will go before the same commissions that approved our site, a process that should take 3 to 4 months. Which means that we could break ground for our Memorial this fall and could have our dedication ceremony in the late summer or early fall of 2006.

We invite you to join us now at this exciting moment in our history and help us achieve one final goal--raising the remaining $300,000 needed to build the nation's first Memorial to the victims of communism.

Please help this memorial be built, the victims of Communism rarely get a voice and rarely get heard

http://www.victimsofcommunism.org