non-profit name | Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation |
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non-profit type | Educational |
founded date | 1994 |
founder | Lee EdwardsLev DobrianskyGrover NorquistZbigniew Brzezinski |
location | Washington, DC |
key people | George W. Bush, Honorary ChairmanLee Edwards, ChairmanJay Katzen, PresidentEd Priola, Director of Public Affairs |
homepage | http://www.victimsofcommunism.org |
footnotes | }} |
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation is a non-profit educational organization in the United States, established as a result of an Act of Congress in 1993 with the purpose to commemorate "the deaths of over 100,000,000 victims in an unprecedented imperial communist holocaust". Its name is derived from the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, D.C.
In 1991, Senator Steve Symms and Representative Dana Rohrabacher introduced concurring resolutions in the United States Congress urging the construction of "an International Memorial to the Victims of Communism at an appropriate location within the boundaries of the District of Columbia and for the appointment of a commission to oversee the design, construction and all other pertinent details of the memorial." In 1993, Rohrabacher and Senator Jesse Helms sponsored amendments which authorized such construction into the FRIENDSHIP Act. The Act was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on December 17, 1993.
According to Title IX, Section 905 of Public Law 103-199, the National Captive Nations Committee, Inc. (NCNC) was to establish an independent organization to construct, maintain and operate the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, DC, as well as to collect the contributions for the establishment of the memorial and to encourage the participation of all groups suffered under Communism.
The memorial was dedicated on June 12, 2007 - the 20th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's "Tear down this wall" speech in Berlin. The unveiling of the statue in Washington DC brought international press attention to both the Victims of Communism Memorial and the Foundation.
An ongoing project of the Foundation is the internet-based Global Museum on Communism. Among other exhibits and facitities, the Museum provides an interactive registry to collect the personal stories of the victims of communism.
The national advisory council includes David Manker Abshire, Robert Conquest, Dennis DeConcini, Bob Dole, Edwin Feulner, Paul Hollander, Jack Kemp (deceased), William Eldridge Odom, Richard Pipes, Rudolph Rummel, John K. Singlaub, and George Weigel.
The international advisory council includes Sali Berisha, Yelena Bonner, Vladimir Bukovsky, Emil Constantinescu, Brian Crozier, Árpád Göncz, Václav Havel, Mart Laar, Vytautas Landsbergis, Guntis Ulmanis, Lech Wałęsa, Armando Valladares, and Harry Wu.
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