On November 10, 2025, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC), in partnership with the Embassy of Lithuania, presented the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom to Cuban dissident José Daniel Ferrer. Originally given in absentia in 2020 while Ferrer was imprisoned, the medal recognizes Ferrer's lifelong commitment to democracy, human rights, and opposition to communist oppression in Cuba, where he endured more than two decades of imprisonment, torture, and persecution.

The award was presented to Ferrer by Dr. Elizabeth Edwards Spalding, Chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, and Founding Director of the VOC Museum. Dr. Elizabeth Edwards Spalding explained that Ferrer “devoted his life to fighting for freedom and democracy within a totalitarian regime. We marvel at Ferrer’s moral clarity, his courage, his endurance, his witness, his character, as we thank and honor him.”