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- The Witness Project is a short documentary series sponsored by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) that records the experiences of a number of individuals who were - and in some cases still are - victims of persecution by collectivist regimes in the 20th and 21st centuries. Each video aims to cultivate empathy and understanding from a wider audience that may be unfamiliar with the history of collectivist tyranny, dramatizing each witness's experience and wisdom in an easily understood personal narrative. Smock Media has found that this approach is much more effective at drawing viewers into the reality of these stories rather than numbing the audience with a catalog of unspeakable horrors from yesteryear that may shock but ultimately are so outside viewers' personal experiences that they fail to truly inform the audience's worldviews.
- "In February 1960, I was charged and condemned for not thinking the right way." This is the personal account of Dan Novacovici, a political prisoner in communist Romania, imprisoned on a "floating Gulag" on the Danube then in a forced labor camp where he was tortured. He lived to become a witness against communism.
- As a child in communist Albania in the 1970s and 1980s, Elida Dakoli was persecuted due to her family's pro-democracy ties. Both sides of her family were targeted because of their opposition to the brutal communist Enver Hoxha regime. When her passion for music started at age six, her parents were determined to not let the communist oppression of their family smother Elida's independent spirit. Against all odds, Elida's natural talent and her resolve to master the piano enabled her to triumph over the totalitarian regime's repression.
- As a child in North Korea, Ji Seong-ho was so malnourished that he fainted while trying to steal coal to sell for food. A train severed his left leg and fingers, and he underwent surgery without any anesthesia. The police would torture him and say, "Cripples bring shame and should die." He resolved to escape. Ten thousand harrowing kilometers on crutches later, he earned his freedom and became a heroic witness against communism.
- As Venezuela implodes beneath an oppressive socialist regime, one democratically elected mayor turned dissident is fighting back against the dictator and standing up for the Venezuelan people. This is David's story. This film is part of a larger educational series by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation to highlight and share the stories of those brave survivors of the crimes of communist regimes.
- Miss World Canada, Anastasia Lin left her home country of China as a young girl. It wasn't until many years later that she first learned about the horrors of Tiananmen Square from outside China. Sadly, she's not the only one....
- Oswaldo Payá was murdered by the Castro brothers because he dared to believe his country could be free from the grip of communism. Today, his daughter Rosa María tells the inspirational story of his fight against communism and wages her own battle to finally bring democracy to Cuba.
- On August 23rd, 1939, World War II started because of an alliance between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. The Nazis and their communist allies made a secret pact to divide up the nation of Poland between them as conquered territory. But brave Polish men and women like Wanda fought back against the invaders that tried to conquer their homeland.
- In this compelling narrative, Dániel Magay serves as a witness to the ideology, history, and legacy of communism, speaking out for the more than 100 million people killed by communism. A witness to the historic events of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Daniel won a gold medal for fencing in the Olympic Games that same year. Victory turned to defeat, however, when Soviet tanks rolled back into Budapest and resumed communist rule; Daniel had to choose whether to stay in his home country or flee to America-a decision that would change the course of his life.
- The genocide committed by the communist Khmer Rouge included the systematic elimination of all "intellectuals" in Cambodian society. Because he was a doctor, Nal Oum was one of millions sent into the network of labor camps, prisons, and mass execution sites we now call the Killing Fields.