A Museum Dedicated to 100 Million Victims

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If the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation succeeds, a vacant eight-and-a-half-story Department of Education building near The Mall in Washington will be converted into a memorial and museum to honor the victims of communism.

The building is across the street from the National Air and Space Museum, the city's busiest, which draws 8.5 million visitors annually. "We want kids to come out of the Air and Space Museum and then go [into the memorial]," says Lee Edwards, president of the foundation, which would oversee the design, construction and operation of the complex.

The memorial would honor the people slain by the communist leaders of the former Soviet Union, Eastern …