In memory of Ernests Kārlis Bredovskis.
 
Born in 1906 in Liepaja district, Vaiņode parish.
 
Arrested in "Trīs-kapčos" in Demene Parish, Ilukste County. November 2, 1940. 
In Demene Parish he worked as a logger.
 
Imprisoned in Daugavpils Prison.
 
Transported to Russia.
 
Detained at Krasnoyarsk Prison No.1. from November 2, 1940 to February 28, 1942, where he also died.
 
...

For my father, Leon, who was badly beaten by the Romanian communists in 1962, in order to force him to surrender his land.

For the people in communist countries, like Cuba, who are at this very moment in prison for their ideas and wishes for freedom.

In memory of Oskars Ezergailis, who was deported to Siberia.

In memory of Imants Alksnis

In memory of Markus Gailitis

In memory of Atis Kenins

In memory of Janis Niedra

In memory of Janis Preisbergs

In memory of Adolfs Svenne

In memory of Mariss Vetra

To the memory of victims from Latvia.

In memory of my husband, Vlastimil, who spent over 11 years in a Communist concentration camp and was forced to work in uranium mines in Jachymov in what was then Czechoslovakia. I hope that the memorial to victims of totalitarian Communism will also wake up all of those people who still think that Communism is good.

In memory of Elfrida Zebauers, nee Braze, and past and current victims of Communism.
 
Elfrida Zebauers, 1900-1973. Dentist. Starved to death.

Although many in my family both in Russia and in Ukraine suffered under Communism, I would like to dedicate this tribute to my grandfather, Rafael Voetsky. Rev. Rafael Voetsky was a Russian Orthodox military chaplain at the outbreak of the revolution. He was taken at gunpoint from his wife and five children never to be seen from again. My grandmother and her children had to flee her community of Nikolaevsk on the Amur in order to escape a similar fate.

Dedicated to James Alan Duncan. "He is a free man."

In memory of my father, who saved me from life under Communism and gave me a chance at freedom. He taught me to think for myself, see the truth through expedient lies, and know it when people do evil.

In memory of those who never returned.

My late grandmother arrived from the Soviet Union in the late 1920s, this after her peasant family was first transported around the U.S.S.R., including a stint in Siberia; she and her family were farmer peasants of German stock. Thus, they were undesirable elements, "enemies of the people," is how a devout communist might have put it.

In memory of Vo Thanh Tan

Dedicated to our parents, Michael and Hana Mrozek, who left Czechoslovakia so that we might know freedom and have a better life.

In memory of those who sought freedom but never attained it.

In memory of Alberts & Lidija Hofmanis, good friends of my (Elga's) parents. They were deported from Latvia in 1941 and died in Siberia.

In memory of the Rev. Wasyl Matwijejko, priest of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, perished in the Siberian Gulag c. 1942.

In memory of my father, Janis Kalnins, and dedicated to those transported from Riga's railway yard to Siberia in June 1941. As a child, I grew up listening to many war stories and accounts of cruelty, degradation and injustice inflicted on innocent citizens of Latvia by the Soviet Union under Stalin's regime. There is, however, one incident told by my father, Janis Kalnins, that stands out in my mind. The incident happened in Riga's railway yard in June 1941, where at that time my father...

Phan Thi Ut

Dedicated to the thousands of Latvian June 14, 1941 deportees who ended up in the vast Soviet Gulag.

To the victims of the Communist regime in Romania.

To Aurel Cotnareanu, died in Communist prisons c.1950.

To the Romanians who were oppressed under the Communist regime, including numerous members of the Association Roumaine du Canada.

To the victims of Communism from Romania.

For Latvia's Freedom.

In memory of my family members persecuted by Communists in Romania, starting in the year 1947: My father Dumitru (1933-2010), who suffered the terror of Communism from an early age; he was beaten right in front of his mother, put out of school, and watched thereafter. And: My grandparents Avram (1896-1990) and Rada (1898-1992), who were deprived of liberty and property; they were beaten, imprisoned, robbed and terrorized. My family went through the Communist ordeal just because my...

In memory of the 2 million innocent Polish victims of Communism that were transported to Siberia in the early 1940s, on orders from the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. Taken abruptly from their homes and travelling in cattle cars under horrendous conditions, they went to far off labour camps. Many of them have no graves to call their own, and it's our moral duty to honour them with a memorial in Ottawa. Communism is a cancerous, God-less system that has perfected the methods of extermination...

In memory of John Lewinrz.

Dedicated to writers.

Nguyen, Dat

To the memory of all the persons in Ukraine who suffered under Communism.

Egils and Ingrida Tannis.

Mykola Nikiforovich Pidlysny was born on February 7th, 1927 in the village of Petrivka, Horodnians’kyj District, Chernihiv Province, Ukraine.The Holodomor was a man-made famine in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic between 1932 and 1933. As many as 8 million Ukrainian peasants died of starvation. Mykola was a young boy of 5 and 6 at the time but remembered being extremely hungry.In his memoirs Mykola wrote about this teen years:
...

In memory of my father, Anton Cernauteanu, and my uncle, Vladimir Cernauteanu, both priests, arrested in Bessarabaia by Soviet soldiers in 1940. No one in my family ever heard from them and even at this time we do not know what happened to them: where they were detained, when and how they died, or if they were ever buried.

For the loss of our father, Antoni Stanczak.

For our brother, Karol Stanczak, who died in Iran and is resting in Teheran.

In memory and honour of the innocent whose sacrifice paved the road to liberty.

In remembrance and in honour of all the innocent victims that suffered under Communist rule.

Communism will always be part of our ancestry. Our troop recognizes the need to commemorate the victims of Communism.

In honour of the lives that fought for freedom.

To commemorate my having translated Melanja Vanaga's "In-gathering of the Souls, Vol. 7" about her sixteen years as a deportee in Siberia.

Dedicated to the Latvian military officers in Litene, Latvia, a summer military camp. 200 of these officers were executed in 1941 during the first Soviet occupation, and another 540 Latvian military officers were deported to the Gulag.

In memory of Katrine Subins

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...

Dedicated to NYIMA, Gendhun Choekyi

In memory of all Estonians who have suffered under Communism.

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...

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

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 my father Captain Nikolajs Augulis

Dedicated to DELEG, Tenzin (aka Tenzin Delek Rinpoche)

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

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 Lajos Nagy
 
Nobody runs from Democracy

May the Youth never forget the crimes of communism.

In honour of Elena Delkus

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

In memory of Juhan Oder

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

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

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.

Edmond and Margaret Kayser

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...

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....

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.

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

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.

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

In honour of Saint John Paul II

Soviet Red Army Invasion of Afghanistan - December 25, 1979

Russian Famine of 1921-1922

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.

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...

Teodora and Marek Dobrowolski

B. and J. Gawlik

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

Josef Cermak

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dr. Tran Hieu Liem

Le Ngan

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".

In memory of Helena Malinowska

In memory of Helena Malinowska

The East German Uprising, June 17, 1953

In honour of Vaclav Havel

In memory of Helena Malinowska

Polish Victims from Gdańsk

Mr and Mrs Nguyen Xuan Can

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...

In memory of Jan Palach

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...

Josef Mandat

In memory of Anton Witasiak and Walenty Trojanowski

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

Dr. Le Duy Can

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,...

Malgorzata and Wladyslaw Lizon

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

Michael and Barbara Sherriff

In memory of Edgar and Endla Walk

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.

Ethiopian Red Terror - 1977-1978

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

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

In memory of Jan Buka

In memory of Michailo Huculak

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

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...

Stanislaw and Weronika Markowski nee Klucznik

Jiri and Milada Teichmann

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...

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 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...

Anita and Ivars Gaide

Bykivniya

Viacheslav Chornovil

Paul and Adrianna Grod

Mihai Stauceanu

In memory of Ilmar Heinsoo

In memory of Ilmar Kulvet

In memory of Oskar Puhm

In memory of Mychajlo Witer

In memory of Leontyna Ihnatowycz

In memory of Evhen Wreciona

Inna Khomitska

In memory of Nguyen Trong Phu

In memory of Truong Van Phu

In memory of Le Xuan Phuong

In memory of Oleksander Matla

Father Jan Sajewicz OMI

Jakov Pavicic

Ivan Pavicic

Barbara Baricevic

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....

In memory of Volodymyr Klish

Volodymyr Okipniuk

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...

Mr. Nikola Halar

Paul D. Milkman and Tomye B. Spears

Leonard and Wanda Chodkiewicz

In memory of Dubravko Bandula

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 honour of my father Vladimir Herjavec

In memory of Rev. Adolfs Cops

In memory of Eleonore Zommers

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...

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.

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

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 my dear wife Kačiņa.

In memory of Jan Waldauf

In memory of Zdenek Otruba

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

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

In memory of Dr. Milada Horakova

Polish Victims of Mass Deportations to Siberia

Viola Hasmanis Baker

In honour of my parents Astra and Uldis Maksins

Ethan Huberman

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...

In Memory of Jose Martinez, Veteran of WWII

William R. Black LCDR Ret'd

Andrew Saxton Sr.

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...

Dharam S. Sidhu

In honor of Vincent Raymond Courtenay

Chris Chung

In honor of Arthur Lortie, Captain

Sung Lee Lee

Robertina McLean

Ted Taik-Woon Jung

John Yungchou Lee

Tae Oum

Eleonora Kuczkowska
 
Siberian exile - February 10, 1940.

Alex Czartoryski

In honor of Frank Smyth, CD

         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...

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). 
 
...

Marek Korkusinski

Jolanta and Alexander Kania

In honor of Zdzislaw A. Kajda

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

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

In memory of Alfs and Astrida Udris.

The Dr. Pierre Ninh Van Tu family

In memory of the victims of Communist Russia.

In memory of Rev. Ivan Romanchukewych.

In tribute to my sister Ida Lindstrom Lepp.

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...

Regina Gasztold

Edward Jan Gasztold

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

In memory of Jaan Tönison.

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 Gustav Pristupa

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 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...

Marianne Patasi

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

Armands Kirstein

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.

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.

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

In honour of Boleslaw Chamot

In honour of Lukasz Juszkiewicz

Istvan Szvoboda

Battle of Warsaw 1920

Anatol Nieumierzycki

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.
 

Ilona Toth

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...

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...

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...

Stanislaw Kielar

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...

Renata Jentys

In honour of Yosef Wosk

In memory of Boleslaw Fujarczuk

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.

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 Dang Giang Nam

Dedicated to Helene Weissenberger, neé Grün

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

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 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.

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.

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...

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...

Hryhoriy Hertchak

In memory of Vasyl Solonynka

In memory of Teofilia Stachiw

Nguyen Trieu

In memory of Vilbert and Helmi Tull

Halkewych, Bohdan

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

Peter Chung

Anthony Li

In memory of Lisa Bo-Eun Kim

In honor of Stanislaw Kulej

Dr. Paul Jang

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...

Polish immigrants in Alberta who were victims of communism

Jan and Jadwiga Kraska

Yurkovich family

Mikolaj and Karolina Bereznicki

Stanislaw and Janina Muszynski nee Chodkiewicz

Vo Thuc Lam

In memory of Gen. Le Van Hung

Fall of the Berlin Wall, November 9, 1989

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...

In Memory of Vu Thu Hien

In memory of Huynh Huu Tho

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

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

In memory of TRAN VAN BA

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 my uncle Eddie Quigley.

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 Jože Zdešar

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 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...

Hungarian Revolution 1956 

In memory of Professor Aleksis Dreimanis

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 Bronislawa with Stanislaw Skorek and Family

In memory of Me Nam Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh

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...

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...

Victims of the 1945 Augustow roundup (Oblawa augustowska)

In memory of Cursed Soldiers

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 my grandfather Huang Shu Qing.

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 Prof. Nguyen Van Bong

In memory of our mother Marija Verpelis nee Berzins

Stan and Irene Zaborowski

Dariusz Smulski

In honour of Capt. Nguyen Van Binh.

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...