Causes
For All: Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
900 15th Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20005
“Communism killed over 100 million.
We’re telling their stories.”
- For Romania: Casa Elisabeta Rizea
Str. Elisabeta Rizea nr. 16, Nucșoara, jud. Argeș 117540
“Designing a memorial space around the house of former anti-Communist freedom fighter Elisabeta Rizea (1912-2003) is a project initiated by her great-grandson, Bogdan Vârvoreanu.”
Donate to Casa Elisabeta Rizea
I, Sultana, went to elementary school with her great-grandson, Bogdan. Please help him rebuild her house now.
- For Hungary: 1956 Hungarian Revolution Portal
“To commemorate those who never surrendered”
Inscription, Hungarian Revolution Memorial, Liberty Square, Boston, MA (Sculptor: Gyuri Hollosy), 1986
For More Information: American Hungarian Federation
2001 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, D.C. 20036
- For China: ChinaAid
D.C. Office: 1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Suite 700, Washington, D.C. 20004
Headquarters: PO Box 8513, Midland, TX 79708
“Those experiencing persecution in China have courageous, inspiring stories to tell.”
Write Letters to Prisoners of Conscience
- For North Korea: North Korea Freedom Coalition
c/o Jubilee Campaign USA
9689 Main Street, Suite C, Fairfax, VA 22031
“Help us be a ‘voice for those suffering in silence.'”
Get Involved as a Public or Private Member
Donate to the North Korea Freedom Coalition
- For Vietnam: Vietnamese Heritage Museum
13962 Seaboard Circle, Garden Grove, CA 92843
“The Tragic Escape of the Vietnamese Boat People”
Donate to Keep Vietnamese Refugee History Alive
- For Laos and the Hmong: National Lao-Hmong Memorial Foundation
“We are building a national memorial for the Lao-Hmong who gave their lives for America… during and following the U.S. Secret War in Laos.”
Donate to the Lao-Hmong Memorial Monument
(to be constructed in Westminster, CO)
- For Cambodia: Cambodian Genocide Program
“The Khmer Rouge regime headed by Pol Pot combined extremist ideology with ethnic animosity and a diabolical disregard for human life to produce repression, misery, and murder on a massive scale.”
For More Information:
Justice & Relief for Survivors of the Khmer Rouge
- For Cuba: Center for a Free Cuba
417 West Broad Street, Suite 204
Falls Church, VA 22046
“Urging men and women of goodwill everywhere to lend their voices to the cries for help of the Cuban people”
Donate to the Center for a Free Cuba
- For Germany: Victims at the Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall Foundation (Stiftung Berliner Mauer)
Bernauer Straße 111, 13355 Berlin
“Between 1961 and 1989, at least 140 people were killed or died at the Wall in connection with the GDR border regime… At least 251 travelers also died during or after passing through checkpoints at Berlin border crossings. Unknown numbers of people suffered and died from distress and despair that was caused by the Berlin Wall.”
Donate to Victims at the Berlin Wall
- For Poland: National Katyń Memorial Foundation
P.O. Box 25720, Baltimore, MD 21224
“They were Poland’s leaders and thinkers”
Learn about the Katyń Massacre
Donate to the National Katyń Memorial Foundation
- For the former Czechoslovakia: August 1968 – Victims of the Occupation
“The August invasion of five Warsaw Pact armies and their actions in Czechoslovakia… claimed 108 lives through the end of the year 1968, with another 500 seriously injured and hundreds more slightly injured.”
Remember Jan Palach (1948-1969)
- For the former Soviet Union: Gulag Online
“Historians estimate the total number of Gulag prisoners at 20 million, of whom about 2 million did not survive their incarceration. The victims of the Soviet Gulag were not only from the nations of the USSR but were also citizens of other countries – Czechoslovaks, Poles, Hungarians, Frenchmen, Americans, and others…”
Donate to Project Gulag Online Virtual Museum
- For the Republic of Moldova: Museum of Victims of Political Repressions and Deportations
“According to some incomplete data, 31 677 persons were sentenced for ‘political crimes’ between 1920-1951 in MASSR and MSSR, of which over 5000 were sentenced to death. Other 3000 died in prisons and isolators. About 60 thousand people were deported during nationwide deportations: in June 1941, July 1949 and 1 April 1951.”
Visit at the National Museum of History of Moldova
31 August 1989 St., 121 A, MD 2012, Chisinau
- For Uzbekistan: Portal in Memory of Victims of Repression
“The main objective of our museum is eternalizing the memory of innocent victims of totalitarian regime repressions…”
Visit the Museum: Yunusobod District, Amir Temur Street, “Shahidlar khotirasi” Square, Tashkent City 100184
- For the former Yugoslavia, and for countries impacted by crimes against humanity committed by Communist regimes that are not mentioned here: The database at Communist Crimes may be a starting point to research the topic of your choice
(website maintained by the Estonian Institute for Historical Memory)
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