The Styczynski Family who fled Communism in 1983.
 
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on.." - Ronald Reagan

In memory of Kazimierz Sawicki and Emma Sawicki nee Chodkiewicz

Sargautis-Juzeliunas family

Apel Seferian

In Memory of our father Jozef Mader.
 
Jozef Mader was one of 6 children of Anastazia and Frantisek Mader.  He was born in the small village of Mast, close to Bratislava in Slovakia.  Jozef was an idealist and a dreamer and always strived for a better life for himself and his family. 
 
As a young man, in 1952, living in communist-oppressed Czechoslovakia, he and his buddies devised a plan to run away to Canada....

In memory of the Victims of the communist re-education camps.
 
 In Memory of Kha-Tư-Giáo (1942 – 1976) and thousands of victims who died in the Communism prison camps 

Black April: Remembering the Kha Tu Giao - the indomitable friend in prison. 
I was the soldier who surrendered while fighting 
I am an exiled prisoner in my own country 
How many years have passed? 
Oh, my dear Country, I never forget the...

In memoy of Mr. Duong Hung Cuong

In memory of Jiang Jielian
 
In memory of Jiang Jielian (蒋捷连), 17 years old.  Died of gun fire, among the 10,000 plus civilians brutally murdered at night of June 3rd, 1989, when Chinese communist government troops with assault rifles and tanks fired at un-armed civilians and peaceful demonstrators in and along the roads leading to Tiananmen Square, Beijing.

In memory of Sabina Dobosz

In memory of Julian Juchniewicz

In memory of Wladyslaw Juchniewicz

In memory of Jagica Sisko

In memory of Milka Jagatic

Grgo and Ruzica Perko

Mirko and Zdenka Grbesic

In memory of Ruta Tuklers.

In memory of Venerable Thich Quang Do

In memory of my mother Līze Trinite

In memory of Luka Spehar, buried in one of the mass graves.

In memory of Franciska Schmee Kupresak.

In memory of Ivan Orsanic.

Father’s Story The Secret Police took Father during an evening of the 1950 Spring in Bucharest. At the time, Romania was under Russian occupation and the new Communist Party in power was ready to eradicate any opposition or organized resistance.
 
 As Mother was preparing me for bed—I was 2 years old—, a big commotion started in front of our apartment’s door. Father opened the door and several men stormed in, asking...

In memory of Tobias & Katharina Voth
 
Tobias (born 1865, died 1932?) and Katharina Voth (née Reghr, born 1862, died 1921) lived in the German-speaking Mennonite colony of Neu Samara, in Orenburg Oblast. They were successful farmers, and community leaders, with Tobias operating the town mill of their village of Lugowsk and serving as a travelling minister for the church. They had five children, Jakob, Anna, Katarina, Johannes, and...

Orest and Tetiana Dzulynsky.
As children, both Orest and Tetiana Dzulynsky left what is now Ukraine, during WWII. They left behind large families. These families, their children and grandchildren lived for tens of years under Communism. Though they were not killed, they were victims in the sense that they were economically and psychologically deprived. For years many lived in fear of imprisonment, deportation or abuse, not to speak of opportunities lost.

In memory of Victor Bulava. Mr. Bulava was a post-war refugee from Czechoslovakia who ecaped along with Jerry Tmej and other freedom seeking expats.

Dedicated to our mother and father, Susanna (Siemens) Klassen and Waldemar Klassen.
 
Donated by Walter and Rita Klassen, Henry Klassen, Margaret Ann, Elsie K. Neufeld, Ernie Klassen, Rob and Charlotte Lepp. 
Dedicated to our mother and father, Susanna (Siemens) Klassen and Waldemar Klassen who from the time of their birth were subject to the terrorism and devastation of Stalin's ruthless communist regime in Ukraine. While many family members perished, our...

In memory of Sr. Regina Milas

In memory of Stjepan, Tatjana & Rosemarie Sevo

In memory of Dinka Domancinovic

In memory of Nikola Martinovic

In memory of Damir Durekovic

In memory of Alojzije Stepinac

In memory of Olgerts and Elma MIniats

In memory of Ilze Zommers

In memory of Erna Norvilis

In memory of Alberts and Dzidra Taube

Gunars Subins

In honour of Korean War Veterans of Canada

In memory of Sarah Derksen Siemens
 
Sarah had an idyllic beginning. She was born on April 10, 1912 in the small village of Altonau. This was one of 16 villages in the larger Mennonite colony of Sagradovka (present-day Ukraine). The Ingulets River flowed nearby – a safe place for swimming, fishing, picnicking and community gatherings.
   
Sarah remembers the watermelon, peaches and cherries growing in almost every...

In memory of Heinrich Siemens
 
I was eight years old when my father was arrested. My Father was taken on February 3, 1938.---Heinrich Siemens and two of his brothers were arrested.The night father was arrested, the family said evening prayers as usual. We prayed as we had been taught and then went to bed. However, even this act, if someone reported it, was considered an act of treason, punishable by a sentence of five to ten years of...

In memory of the Family of Jakob and Maria Letkemann, who survived Communism, but never forgot. In the summer of 1930, in the Slavgorod colony, there is a mass arrest that includes preachers, choir directors, and anyone connected with religion or church. The two hundred prisoners – men, women, and families with children, bewildered and terrified – are tightly packed into waiting train cars on that summer day.Jakob receives a directive from the...

In memory of our grandparents, Johann (1892-1938?) and Justina Sawatzky (1894-1986)
Eighty years ago, during the night of February 1, 1938, the Black Raven police cars came into the Mennonite village of Nieder Chortitza in Ukraine. Word spread quickly. Johann suspected he would be among those arrested. He took his guitar and he sang the hymn, “Take thou my hands, O Father, and lead thou me.” When the knock at the door came, he turned to Justina...

In memory of the Reinholds family

The Boat People
 
Nguyen Ngoc Huy
 
Mr. Nguyen left Vietnam after the fall of Saigon in 1975 as a refugee. He became a professor and lived most of his life in France. He is the founder of the Alliance for Democracy in Vietnam (ADV). He has since passed away.
 
http://www.david-kilgour.com/2011/Dr_Huy_distribution.pdf

In memory of the Kamarik Family.

In memory of Rt. Rev. Roman and Irene Galadza

In memory of Le Ngoc Long

In memory of my father Vlastimil Robert Novak

In memory of Mrs Nguyen Thi Hoang

In memory of all non-commissioned officers of the Republic of Vietnam’s Rangers who were the victims of communism after the April 30, 1975 event.
 

In memory of my parents John and Helen Luchkiw (nee: Marchuk) as victims of Communist oppression and my mother as a survivor of the Holodomor Famine instituted by the Stalinist regime during the years 1930- 1933.
 
During the war years (1939-45) our parents were interred as slave labourers in Germany. They have since passed away in the country they loved dearly, Canada.

In memory of Republic of Vietnam Rangers’ Force, Lt. TRINH CHAU who was executed by Viet Cong in the prison at Go Ca, Hoi An on 14th of June, 1980.

In memory of Republic of Vietnam Rangers’ Force, Capt. VU NGOC PAUL HO who was executed by Viet Cong while being held in the “Re-education Camp” in 1975 at Long Xuyen.

In memory of  Republic of Vietnam Rangers’ Force , Major TRAN ĐINH TU who was executed by Viet Cong (VC) at Cu Chi on April 30th, 1975.
 

In memory of Ho Chau

In memory of Rein Kanep, our father, born August 24, 1907. He worked in the Pärnu political police unit. On December 18, 1940, he was arrested by the NKVD and imprisoned in Pärnu. He was charged with counter-revolutionary activities by a tribunal on July 28, 1941, resulting in the death penalty. He was then transported to Tallinn and on to Kirov. There he was shot on September 1, 1941.

In memory of Huynh Huu Luong

In memory of Lt. Huynh Quang Nghia

In memory of Gen. Pham Van Phu

In memory of Hoang Si Tuan

In memory of Tran Thang Tai

 
 
When I was growing up the everyday wonders and curiosity of childhood were eclipsed by the harsh realities of life. The ubiquitous secrets and lies of communism made my head spin, social problems prevailed, and empty stores were the rule, never the exception.
 As the saying goes, it seems like only yesterday that the pervasive repression and economic and political struggles of the system became almost intolerable for so many...

In memory of my grandfather Stanislaw Wielicki.

In memori of my mother Eva J. Manderla, neé Wielicka.

Willi Ristau

Commemorating Professor Nguyễn Ngọc Bích (by friends of Prof. Nguyễn Ngọc Bích in the “Assembly for Democracy)
 
Professor NGUYEN NGOC BICH (1937-2016) was born in Hanoi. A patriot who has worked tirelessly for the cause of Vietnam, professor Bich has devoted his whole life serving and upholding the principle of sovereignty for his motherland, fighting for freedom and human rights for his less fortunate and persecuted...

In honour of Capt. Nguyen Van Binh.

Dariusz Smulski

Stan and Irene Zaborowski

In memory of our mother Marija Verpelis nee Berzins

In memory of Prof. Nguyen Van Bong

In memory of my father-in-law, Lieutenant Colonel Jaan Lepp. Lt. Colonel Lepp was a remarkable gentleman, an Estonian patriot and fighter for Estonia's independence.

In memory of my grandfather Huang Shu Qing.

In memory of Alex and Wira Kanareisky
Alex and Wira lived in the Donbas, the area presently under occupation by Russian troops. Both were survivors of the Ukrainian genocide, the Holomodor of 1932-1933 and witnessed other atrocities as well, such as deportation and incarceration under the Soviet Union. They ended up as DPs in the camps of Germany and immigrated to Canada.

In memory of Cursed Soldiers

Victims of the 1945 Augustow roundup (Oblawa augustowska)

Peter Bargen was just seven years old when he and his family narrowly escaped the Russian Gulag and almost certain death. The extended family members who remained in the former USSR were not so...

Holodomor 
1932-33.
 
Ukrainian Famine and Genocide (“Holodomor”) Memorial Day ActS.C. 2008, c. 19
Assented to 2008-05-29
 
An Act to establish a Ukrainian Famine and Genocide (“Holodomor”) Memorial Day and to recognize the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33 as an act of genocidePreamble
WHEREAS the Ukrainian Famine and Genocide of 1932-33 known as the Holodomor was deliberately planned and executed by the Soviet regime under...

In memory of Me Nam Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh

In Memory of Bronislawa with Stanislaw Skorek and Family

In memory of John Shafer.
 
John Shafer, died in 1929 at the age of 9 months, in early December, 1929.  He was sick with measles while the family was in transit accommodation for migrants in Moscow.  It developed into pneumonia just before they departed to begin their journey to Germany and then on to Canada.  He died in the train two hours before they reached the border with Poland.  The authorities took the body and promised to bury him   In...

In memory of Professor Aleksis Dreimanis

Hungarian Revolution 1956 

In memory of Peter Fechter
 
KILLING IN HORRIFIC CIRCUMSTANCES
 
Peter Fechter, an 18-year-old bricklayer, is one of the strongest symbols of the killing of a fugitive at the Berlin Wall.He was shot by East German border guards on August 17, 1962. Together with another friend, Helmut Kulbeik, he tried to climb the wall. Severely wounded, he fell back onto the so-called “Death Strip” between the inner and outer wall on the East German side of the...

In memory of Johann Isaak Friesen
 
Speech by Walter Friesen to the dedication of the Tribute to Liberty Site Dedication.
 
My father was born in South Russia, now the Ukraine, in a Mennonite village about half way between Zaporozhe and Odessa. The Mennonite community had moved to Russia in the late 1700s and was well established and highly productive in the Russian economy. Most were farmers, industrialists, and educators. This was...

In Memory of Jože Zdešar

In memory of my grandfather Stefan Szmihelsky (village of Stinka, Buchach Region, Ukraine).
 
 He, his wife and their three young daughters were sent to Siberia for a 10 year sentence of hard labour in the coal mines in 1944, for my father’s involvement in Ukrainian patriotism. 
 
My grandfather was very tall (almost 7’) and thin and suffered terrible lung problems from the coal dust over the 10 years. When he was too ill and weak to mine the...

In memory of my uncle Eddie Quigley.

In memory of Victims of Land Reform in North Viet Nam 1950s'
 
NGUYEN THI NAM. A victim of Land Reform
 
The story of Mrs. (Madam) NGUYEN-THI-NAMAuthor: Tran-Gia-PhungTranslator: Timothy Tran 
Under the (Vietnamese) communist regime, there were many cases of people being brutalized, most notably was the case of Nguyen-Thi-Nam in the so-called "Land Reform" of 1953. Before getting to know more about Mrs. Nam ("...

In memory of TRAN VAN BA

In memory of Victims of Mortar Attack at Cai Lay Elementary Community School, 1974

In memory of the Victims of "Highway of Horror" in Quang Tri, 1972

In memory of Huynh Huu Tho

In Memory of Vu Thu Hien

In Memory of Hoang Mai
 I attend the Flag Raising event on the 30th of April, also called "Black April", every year. I am always moved to tears when I remember the beloved sister I lost in 1979, especially during the Minute of Silence.
 
Before 1975, my sister Hoang Mai was employed by the US defense agency. This made her a victim of persecution and discrimination by the brutal Vietnam communist regime after they took power. The psychological turmoil...

Fall of the Berlin Wall, November 9, 1989

In memory of Gen. Le Van Hung

Vo Thuc Lam

Stanislaw and Janina Muszynski nee Chodkiewicz

Mikolaj and Karolina Bereznicki

Yurkovich family

Jan and Jadwiga Kraska

Polish immigrants in Alberta who were victims of communism

Battle of Kapyong (April 23-25, 1951)
 
 
An historic battle of the Korean War and one of Canada’s greatest military achievements. Vastly outnumbered against Communist forces, the 2PPCLI, the 3RAR, the United Kingdom’s 1st Battalion Middlesex Regiment, and New Zealand’s 16RNZA, thwarted a massive enemy offensive in the hills of the Kapyong River Valley.
 
 
Later awarded the U.S. Presidential Unit Citation for their valour and heroic...

Dr. Paul Jang

In honor of Stanislaw Kulej

In memory of Lisa Bo-Eun Kim

Anthony Li

Peter Chung

John R. Bishop, Lieutenant-Colonel (Ret.)

Halkewych, Bohdan

In memory of Vilbert and Helmi Tull

Nguyen Trieu

In memory of Teofilia Stachiw

In memory of Vasyl Solonynka

Hryhoriy Hertchak

I was so touched by the news that Canada is planning to build a Memorial to Victims of Communism. Our family was one of the many victims, and my husband, two children and I escaped from Hungary in 1956. Canada was so generous to us and helped us get a new start.
 
My daughter was only ten when we escaped, but all her life she was curious about the events that led us leave our country and become refugees. I wrote notes in Hungarian, as I remembered them, and she decided to...

To Those Murdered in Kurapaty, Belarus
 
 Kurapaty, a wooded area that lies on the outskirts of the Belarusian capital Minsk, has for a long time symbolized a horrendous tragedy and extreme sorrow for all those who consider themselves a Belarusian.  Between 1937 and 1941 Kurapaty saw regular mass executions of civilians by the NKVD, Stalin’s secret police, the predecessor of the KGB. Some of those 220,000 “enemies of...

The Peter and Jana Zachar Family
 
The Peter and Jana Zachar Family in the memory of my father whose premature heart failure was a result of persistent persecution by the Czechoslovakian communist regime.

In memory of All Forest Brothers.
"Forest Brothers" is the generic name for all partisans that fought Communism in Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine from 1943 to 1956.

In loving memory of my family and friends from Croatia and Ukraine who suffered under the scourge of communism.
For those family and friends who made the bold and dangerous decision to flee from those lands, I am forever indebted to you.   Your brave and risky sacrifices lead directly to my birth on this soil, and the consequential freedoms I have benefitted from herein. 
For those family and friends who were not as fortunate; those that perished and suffered the...

In memory of my grandfather Hryhoriy Grechyn, who was exiled to Siberia from the western Ukraine and died there.

Dedicated to Helene Weissenberger, neé Grün

In memory of Dang Giang Nam

José Antonio Rodríguez-Porth
 
 
He was born on April 7, 1916, in San Salvador, El Salvador, the son of a local pharmacist and a German immigrant from Dresden.  He attended the García Flamenco school, the first non-Catholic private school in his country, because his parents believed in secular education.  He was educated from a young age in the ideals of democracy and rule of law.  In a country where blonde hair is fairly rare, his blonde mane...

In memory of Le Van Cai (1969-1987)
In memory of my brother. La Van Cai was born on September 29, 1969. He was a victim of the Vietnamese Communists. In 1987 he escaped from the communists, but was one of the many who lost their lives at sea. Gone but never forgotten.

In memory of Boleslaw Fujarczuk

In honour of Yosef Wosk

Renata Jentys

In memory of Andrej Kun - Svodin
 
The fate of my father, Andrej Kun, under communism
 
In the early 1950’s the Czechoslovakian communist regime began to force all farmers to establish cooperatives (in Czech, JZD or kolkhoz). Our family owned 50 acres of land in southeastern Czechoslovakia, close to the village of Svodin, where we lived. My father, like most farmers didn’t want to give up land he had inherited from his forefathers, to join some cooperative...

Stanislaw Kielar

Elena Gedminas-Stanevicius left Kelme, Lithuania, in 1946, with two children under the age of 4 (Alfonsas and Lione).  Her husband Ipolitas and brother Zigmas had left earlier, so she loaded up 2 wagons of belongings with 4 horses, having no idea where she would end up.  After witnessing horrible slaughters of people caught by Communists, she prayerfully reached Germany, where she met up with her husband and brother.  The family lived in Blomberg, Germany for 3 yrs. where...

In memory of my father Mihaly Nogradi.
 
Our entire family in Szeged suffered under the Communist reign in Hungary after the Soviet occupation in 1945. But none of us felt it more than my father, Nógrádi Mihály, a small landowner, who resided at 13 Mokrini sor. He was taken away on false charges one night in the autumn of 1950 by the Hungarian Secret Police, known as ÁVO [Állam Védelmi Osztály].
It was common practice for the ÁVO to recruit ordinary citizens in all...

In honour of Pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh, a Lutheran Christian pastor in Vietnam, arbitrarily subjected to harassment since 2003 and imprisonment since 2011 because he refused to renounce his religion.
 
Pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh is now serving an 11 year imprisonment sentence in prison camp An Phuoc, Binh Duong province of Vietnam.
 
Born on October 10, 1966 in the Highlands of Vietnam, Pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh was arrested on April 18, 2011 by the Public...

Ilona Toth

In memory of my uncle Vaclav Benes, from Mlecice.
 
He refused to happily hand over the family farm and was sentenced on fake charges to multi-years in uranium mines. When he did not die because of horrendous conditions soon enough, a bullet to his head did the dirty deed.
 

Anatol Nieumierzycki

Battle of Warsaw 1920

Istvan Szvoboda

In honour of Lukasz Juszkiewicz

In honour of Boleslaw Chamot

The Veterans of the Polish 2nd Corps of the 8th Army

The single biggest disaster by communism is not bringing poverty and atrocity to people, but polluting people's spirits and various consequences arising from that.

In honour of my father Stefan Moniak, sergeant major in Polish Army, who died in Russia (the Urals) May 1, 1941, at the age of 43.

Armands Kirstein

Three worker rights activists:  Mr. Doan Huy Chuong
                                             Mr. Nguyen Hoang Quoc Hung
                                             Ms. Do Thi Minh Hanh
...

Marianne Patasi

In memory of Rev. Jonas Staškevičius 
 
Rev. Jonas Staškevičius and Stasys Staškevičius were brothers of the late Juozas Staškevičius (1909-2004) of Toronto and the late Bronius Staškevičius (1920-2003) of Montreal, the only two of the Staškevičius family who fled to the west to escape communism.Rev. Jonas Staškevičius (born in 1910) was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1935.  When Lithuania was occupied by the Soviet communist forces during and after the...

For the many thousands exiled from Lithuania.
  
Excerpt: Julija Šukys, Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Granddaughter’s Reckoning. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2017.
 
 
And so it happened that Ona was alone at 19 Skirgailos Street in Kaunas on the night of June 14, 1941. Normally, four and sometimes five people lived in the Spartan apartment that comprised two rooms, plus a...

In memory of Gustav Pristupa

In honour of General Le Minh Dao
 
In Honor of Major General Le-Minh-Dao (1933 - 2020) (Wikipedia) 
Mr. Le-Minh-Dao was born on March 5th, 1933 in Binh-Hoa Commune, Gia-Dinh Province, South Viet-Nam. He came from a middle-class, educated and honourable family. His father was a civil servant. In his youth, he had a reputation of being a good student, attending Lycee Petrus Ky school in Saigon. In 1952, he graduated with Baccalaurea II diploma in the...

In memory of Jaan Tönison.

Civil War Victims of the Communist Party in El Salvador 1980-1992

Edward Jan Gasztold

Regina Gasztold

In memory of Viet Khang Vo Minh Tri
 
In honour of musician Viet Khang (Vo Minh Tri) who is currently detained in Z30A Xuan Loc reeducation camp, because of his songs protesting the communist government’s repression of dissident voices in Vietnam.
 
Vo Minh Tri, born 1978 in My Tho City, Tien Giang province, was already well-known in Vietnam as a drum player in the Tien Giang orchestra and composer of songs for the young generations since graduating from...

In tribute to my sister Ida Lindstrom Lepp.

In memory of Rev. Ivan Romanchukewych.

In memory of the victims of Communist Russia.

The Dr. Pierre Ninh Van Tu family

In memory of Alfs and Astrida Udris.

In memory and honour of my late father, Nguyen Khuong Quan, who sacrificed and fought hard for our safety, freedom, opportunity and hope.

In honour of Krystyna Szkwarek
 
Written by Aileen Szkwarek
February 2020 marks the 80th anniversary of a largely unknown historical tragedy; Joseph Stalin’s deportation of 1.7 million Polish citizens, including 350,000 children, to slave labour camps in Siberia and the interior of the U.S.S.R.
 
In the first wave of this mass deportation, Aileen’s mother Christine (Krystyna Grzegorczyk) Szkwarek, and her family were arrested and exiled to Siberia....

In memory of Danuta Helena Siedzikowna "Inka"
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danuta_Siedzikówna

In honor of Zdzislaw A. Kajda

Jolanta and Alexander Kania

Marek Korkusinski

Georgi Vins (1928-1998) was a leader of Russian Baptists who was imprisoned for some years in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s. He later discovered that his father Peter was executed by the NKVD in 1936. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1979 following intervention by U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Part of his story is found in Michael Bourdeaux (1971), Faith on Trial in Russia (London: Hodder and Stoughton). 
 
...

         Being a victim of Vietnamese Communists myself, and now living in Canada, I have to say sincerely that the maltreatment I received in their various concentration camps for several years pales by comparison with what Mr Lee Van Tri (aka Nguyen The Witness) had been subjected to during his escape by sea from Vietnam in 1989.   I wish therefore to share with you his story enclosed below.
Montreal, October 14, 2014
Contributor: Du Van...

In honor of Frank Smyth, CD

Alex Czartoryski

Eleonora Kuczkowska
 
Siberian exile - February 10, 1940.

Tae Oum

John Yungchou Lee

Ted Taik-Woon Jung

Robertina McLean

Sung Lee Lee

In honor of Arthur Lortie, Captain

Chris Chung

In honor of Vincent Raymond Courtenay

Dharam S. Sidhu

In memory of Catholic Priest Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly. Catholic priest, victim of the communist regime in Vietnam, Reverend Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly is currently imprisoned in re-educated camp Ba Sao, because of his peaceful activities in support of religious freedom and democracy. Born August 31, 1947 in Quang Tri province, Central Vietnam, Rev. Nguyen Van Ly was ordained in 1974 and served as secretary to the late Archbishop Nguyen Kim Dien from April 1975 to September 1977...

Andrew Saxton Sr.

William R. Black LCDR Ret'd

In Memory of Jose Martinez, Veteran of WWII

In honour of Ms. Mai Thi Dung, who is currently serving a 11 year prison term for her religious beliefs in Vietnam. Mai Thi Dung, victim of religious intolerance in Vietnam   Ms. Mai Thi Dung, a Hoa Hao buddhist believer in Vietnam is currently incarcerated at Z30A Xuan Loc re-education camp, serving an 11 year imprisonment sentence, because of her participation to the Hoa Hao buddhist groups’ protests against government’s crackdowns on independent Hoa Hao buddhist groups in...

Ethan Huberman

In honour of my parents Astra and Uldis Maksins

Viola Hasmanis Baker

Polish Victims of Mass Deportations to Siberia

In memory of Dr. Milada Horakova

The communist putsch Feb. 25, 1948 in Czechoslovakia, caused many victims.

The Soviet army led invasion Aug. 21, 1968 of Czechoslovakia, and occupation until 1991.

In memory of Zdenek Otruba

In memory of Jan Waldauf

In memory of my dear wife Kačiņa.

In memory of my grandfather Petro Halich
 
THE EPIC OF PETRO HALICH
 
By Peter Wasyl Kuzyk
 
 
 
INTRODUCTION
 
 
 ‘Tis with humble respect that I
Accept this challenge, if to try
To bring Petro Halich to view…
That he be paid the tribute due.
 
                             ...

In memory of Captain Tara Singh Hayer, Veteran of Indian Army

Lesniak-Nguyen
 
 
In memory of Polish and Vietnamese citizens oppressed, tortured and killed by communist regimes. And as a token of gratitude to Canada which has given us safety, freedom, opportunity and hope.

Dedicated to GYATSO, Tenzin (aka HH Dalai Lama)
 
Story for GYATSO, Tenzin:
 
Tenzin Gyatso is the Tibetan name of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet.  An Honourary Canadian citizen and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, His Holiness was forced to escape Tibet in 1959 after a decade of illegal occupation by Communist Chinese forces.  Dialogue and peaceful resolution was attempted by His Holiness and his advisors since Communist China's first...

In memory of Eleonore Zommers

In memory of Rev. Adolfs Cops

In honour of my father Vladimir Herjavec

Polish Brigadier General Emil August Fieldorf "Nil".
 
He was a Polish World War II hero, fighting Nazi Germans at the beginning of the war. From 1942 a commander of  Kedyw (special operations executive) of  AK (Polish Home Army). From 1944 deputy commander-in-chief of AK. Killed by communists on 24.02.1953 in Mokotow prison in Warsaw. 
 
More information; https://en....

In memory of Dubravko Bandula

Leonard and Wanda Chodkiewicz

Paul D. Milkman and Tomye B. Spears

Mr. Nikola Halar

In memory of Marianne Wolfe (nee Kemeny):
 A survivor of the Holocaust, Marianne had a comfortable and sheltered life in Budapest after WWII.  The decision to leave after the Revolution was primarily due to the anti-Semitic environment. It had become very difficult to leave Hungary but her father said “leave things to me.”  He made all of the arrangements and on a very gray December morning in 1956, at the age of 25, Marianne left her parents to go to a...

Volodymyr Okipniuk

In memory of Volodymyr Klish

Juraj Gospodnetic
 
Juraj Gospodnetic, born in 1907, Postire, island Brac, Croatia. The Reverend Juraj Gospodnetić (January 9, 1910 - July 27, 1941) was a Croatian catholic priest who was tortured and murdered by Chetnics during the Bosansko Grahovo massacre on July 27, 1941, the day that is considered the day of communist uprising in Croatia, then Yugoslavia. Juraj Gospodnetić was born in Postira on the island Brač....

Barbara Baricevic

Ivan Pavicic

Jakov Pavicic

Father Jan Sajewicz OMI

In memory of Oleksander Matla

In memory of Le Xuan Phuong

In memory of Truong Van Phu

In memory of Nguyen Trong Phu

Inna Khomitska

In memory of Evhen Wreciona

In memory of Leontyna Ihnatowycz

In memory of Mychajlo Witer

In memory of Oskar Puhm

In memory of Ilmar Kulvet

In memory of Ilmar Heinsoo

Mihai Stauceanu

Paul and Adrianna Grod

Viacheslav Chornovil

Bykivniya

Anita and Ivars Gaide

In honour of TRAN Huynh Duy Thuc
 
Born in 1966, engineer Tran Huynh Duy Thuc was a successful IT entrepreneur playing a pioneer role in Vietnam’s private sector IT in the late 1990s and early 2000’s. He started to blog on the topics of government reform and human rights in 2008.  On 24 May 2009, Tran Huynh Duy Thuc was arrested under the initial charge of “promoting anti-government propaganda” under Article 88 of the Vietnamese Penal Code for peacefully...

In honour of Mr. Nguyen Hoang Quoc Hung, a worker rights defender who is serving a 9 year prison sentence in Vietnamese communist “re-education camps”.
Born in 1981, Nguyen Hoang Quoc Hung was a computer engineer when he joined, in 2006 the “Victims of Injustice Movement” and the “Bloc 8406”calling for democratic reforms in Vietnam. In 2009, he joined the “Committee to protect worker rights” of Doan Huy Chuong. In February 2010, Nguyen Hoang Quoc Hung and Doan Huy Chuong were arrested...

In memory of DINH Dang Dinh
 
Teacher, environmental activist and blogger Dinh Dang Dinh was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment in August 2012 after a three-hour trial. A subsequent appeal hearing lasted only 45 minutes. He was charged with “conducting propaganda” against the state for initiating a petition against bauxite mining in the Central Highlands. The bauxite mining project had been awarded to Chinese firms which used obsolete technologies that polluted the...

Jiri and Milada Teichmann

Stanislaw and Weronika Markowski nee Klucznik

Milan Sobot escaped former Yugoslavia (Bosnia-Herzegovina) during WW2, evading Tito’s Communists, Hitler’s Nazi’s and Mussolini’s Socialists ultimately resettling in Canada to start anew.
 
He then worked tirelessly to have his sons and their families join him in his new adopted country so they could enjoy opportunity and peace in Hamilton, Canada.
 
Milan Sobot’s courage and vision, like countless others like him, improved the human condition and...

In memory of Helena and Jan Greczanik, Wanda and Henryk Semrau, who sacrificed so much under the motto "Bog, honor i ojczyzna".

 
In honour of our mother Sub-Lieutenant Nguyen Thi Xuan Uyen, who suffered and perished in 1982, after having been detained in a re-education camp and passed away due to forced labour in the "new economic zone" in Daklak, Vietnam.

In memory of Michailo Huculak

In memory of Jan Buka

In memory of our great grandmother Odarka Tereschenko, born in Verbivtsi, Ukraine. Arrested and tortured in 1933 during the Holomodor/genocidal famine in Ukraine.

In memory of our great uncle Ivan Dimitrovich Temerty, born in Styla Starobeshiv district, Donbas, Ukraine. Accusation Enemy of the people, deported in 1931 to the Gulag, perished while escaping.
 

In memory of our grandfather Konstantyn Dimitrovich Temerty, born in Styla Starobeshiv district, Donbas, Ukraine. Accusation: Enemy of people, executed February 9, 1938.

Ethiopian Red Terror - 1977-1978

In memory of our parents, Joseph and Christina Schafer, who came with their children as refugees from the Soviet Union (Ukraine) to Holdfast, Saskatchewan in December 1930.

In memory of Edgar and Endla Walk

Michael and Barbara Sherriff

As a memory of my parents who were separated during the Communist rule of Czechoslovakia. Miriam Mikulecka Irwin

Malgorzata and Wladyslaw Lizon

In honour of Gao Zhisheng
 
Gao Zhisheng (born 20 April 1964) is a Chinese human rights attorney and dissident known for defending activists and religious minorities and documenting human rights abuses in China. Because of his work, Zhisheng has been disbarred and detained by the Chinese government several times, and severely tortured. He last disappeared in February 2009 and was unofficially detained until December 2011,...

Dr. Le Duy Can

In memory of Polish victims of communism killed by the communist regime

In memory of Anton Witasiak and Walenty Trojanowski

Josef Mandat

In memory of our relatives, including the grandfather we never knew, who perished at the hands of Stalin – imprisoned, tortured, shot to death or sent to Siberia to perish without any further word of their fate. In memory of the children, our unbeknown five aunts and uncles, who starved to death during the Holodomor. In memory of our grandparents who endured the suffering and torment but instilled in their surviving children pride in their Ukrainian heritage. They are the ones who sought a...

In memory of Jan Palach

Col. Nguyen Tuan

The Former Thu Duc Reserve Officer Cadets Association of Ontario

The big disaster in history of Vietnam

Vietnam was formerly a kingdom with over four thousand years of history. Dotted with defeat and glory, occupation and expansion, domination and liberation. But none is more harmful and shameful than being under communist rule during the last century. Disaster was seeded in 1911 when a discontent, cunning but ambitious young man stowed...

Mr and Mrs Nguyen Xuan Can

Polish Victims from Gdańsk

In memory of Helena Malinowska

In honour of Vaclav Havel

The East German Uprising, June 17, 1953

In memory of Helena Malinowska

In memory of Helena Malinowska

In memory of my grandfather Xu-Jian CHEN who died in AD1960 in the county of Ningde in China, because he was a "landlord - owned too much land".

Le Ngan

Dr. Tran Hieu Liem

In memory of Helena Malinowski, who was deported from Poland to a slave labour camp in Siberia, and later raised a beautiful family in Canada.

In memory of my father, Bedrich Sirotek, who made the decision for the entire family to walk away from a large estate and to escape.
He did so in less than a week after the commies took over in February 1948. 
It took a month to find a safe escort out of the country but we crossed the border, after dark. Across a farmer's field by April 10.

Ivan and Iva Grbesic.
In memory of all Croatians who suffered and perished at the hands of Tito and in honour of our parents who fled from communist Yugoslavia to Canada, a great land of opportunity.

Dedicated to my parents, Ivan and Maria Grod,  who were forced to flee Ukraine from Russian-Soviet communist oppression, as well as to the Ukrainian people who were murdered, tortured and oppressed by those intent on destroying the Ukrainian nation.

We honour our uncle Tadeusz Bejt (1923-1949) who remained loyal to the London-based Polish government-in-exile and was executed in 1949 by the Stalinist secret police Urzad Bezpieczenstwa on charges of working for "foreign imperialism". Tadeusz Bejt sentenced in the staged trial was rehabilitated on January 22, 1993.

Josef Cermak

Dedicated to my father Miloslav Suchma who was imprisoned by the communist government in Czechoslovakia and all his property was confiscated.

B. and J. Gawlik

Teodora and Marek Dobrowolski

Dorota Zlotkowska
 
I was born in Canada after my mother fled the dire reality of life in the People’s Republic of Poland under Martial law. I make this donation in honour of a family friend, who along with her family was forced to leave Poland in 1969 as a result of the anti-Semitic purge perpetrated by the Communist regime. Hers was a normal, productive and well-integrated Polish family that was constantly harassed, then stripped of their Polish citizenship against their...

In memory of my grandfather Jaan Kross. He was born in Tallinn, Estonia in 1878. In independent Estonia he worked as a factory manager. He was arrested by the Soviet occupation forces in 1944 as an "enemy of the people" and was killed in the GULAG camp in Potma, Russia, in 1947. We don't know where his grave is, but his memory will never die.

Russian Famine of 1921-1922

Soviet Red Army Invasion of Afghanistan - December 25, 1979

In honour of Saint John Paul II

In memory of the Latvian farmers from the Vilkene Parish, who were deported to Siberia, by the ruinous Soviet occupiers.

To my family and especially to my husband Pedro Benito, who spent 5 years in Cuban prisons, enduring torture, hunger and physical abuse, for the crime of opposing the Castro brothers' communist dictatorship.

To all those who have suffered under communism, just like I suffered for 27 years of my life, under the Castro dictatorship on Cuba.

I dedicate this donation to my brother Guillermo and my father Ismael Sambra, who spent years in jail for peaceful activism against Castro's regime. I was 4 years old when my father Ismael Sambra, and my brother Guillermo were sent to jail. To my father and my brother who have educated us to love freedom and democracy.

When I was 9 years old, just four years after my mother passed away, my father was sent to prison because he was an outspoken activist against the Fidel Castro dictatorship. For many years I had to endure the exclusion from social acceptance because I was the daughter of a counter revolutionary, in the eyes of the regime. My will to fight this type of government, capable of inflicting such unbearable pain in a child, grew stronger with the years, so I became a human rights activist myself....

In 1993 I was sentenced to spend the next 8 years of my life in a Cuban prison. My only crime was to write and distribute propaganda against the Cuban regime, a communist dictatorship that has been in power for the last 54 years. It is controlling the whole nation in every aspect, without permitting the slimmest sign of opposition. In May of 1998, after five years and four months in prison, and thanks to the efforts of Amnesty International, Pope John Paul II and the Government of Canada, I...

Edmond and Margaret Kayser

In memory of my beloved mother Ana Maria Ercea, (1929-2005), poetess and librarian, who died with the hope that things would improve in this world of sadness and madness. She was a fearless anti-communist and had struggled for many years to regain our family belongings, confiscated by the communists after the WW2.

In memory of my brother's family Deported to Siberia March 1949

In memory of Andrejs Kalnins, Inmate of Gulag Camp Norilsk (1941-1946)

In memory of Juhan Oder

In memory of the millions of murdered Ukrainian Victims of Communism.

In honour of Elena Delkus

May the Youth never forget the crimes of communism.

In memory of Lajos Nagy
 
Nobody runs from Democracy

In memory of Prof. NGUYEN, DUY XUAN
REMEMBERING AN INTELLECTUAL OF SOUTH VIET NAM PROFESSOR NGUYỄN DUY XUÂN, MINISTER OF CULTURE AND EDUCATION AND CONCURRENTLY DEAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CẦN THƠ 
 
In the Spring of 1975 the Communist authorities in Ha Noi decided to shred the Agreement on Ending theWar and Restoring Peace in Viet Nam that was formally signed by all the parties in Paris, France on January 27,...

In memory of my dear wife Astrida Not all of us leave empty space behind, and footprints for the Future!

Dedicated to DELEG, Tenzin (aka Tenzin Delek Rinpoche)

In memory of my father Captain Nikolajs Augulis

In memory of Blessed Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac who steadfastly defended his Catholic faith and his Croatian people against the tyranny of Communism.

In memory of Karlis Otto Valkovskis of Latvia; my grandfather who was sent to Siberia, and whom I never had the chance to meet.

Dedicated to Alzbeta Fitmova. In 1948, when communists took power in Czechoslovakia, she was a teacher in a small remote village in current Slovakia. Government ordered all crosses/crucifixes to be removed from the classroom’s wall. However, parents met and insisted on keeping the cross, so she left it on the wall. For this she was imprisoned and kept in very harsh conditions for a gentle woman. She died soon after her release.

In memory of Horst Woit
 
 
Horst Woit, a young boy, snatched his uncle’s jack knife from the kitchen table as he and his mother walked out the door of their home.  They trudged through the snow  and freezing weather toward the Baltic harbor where they boarded a ship named the Wilhelm Gustloff to flee from Nazi Germany while Stalin’s soldiers advanced on the Eastern Front in January 1945. When Alexander Marinesko, commander...

In memory of all Estonians who have suffered under Communism.

Dedicated to NYIMA, Gendhun Choekyi

In memory of the Romanian politician Ion Diaconescu, who died on October 11, 2011 at the age of 94, after a life in the service of liberty and democracy.
Born on August 25, 1917, Ion spent 17 years of his life (1947-1964) in Romanian Communist prisons, as one of the leaders of the National Peasant Party (NPP).
After the fall of the Communist regime in 1989, Ion was involved in the reconstruction of his political party and in the democratization process of Romania. In 1995, Ion...