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The book “Stolen Legacy” by Dina Gold tells the story of the author’s search on her family’s history and the company H. Wolff the family owned in Berlin. It also documents the issues of the restitution claims for the property looted by the National Socialists. The book was published in summer 2015, and we conducted research on behalf of Dina Gold at Berlin archives.

Facts & Files researched the history of the German Food, Beverages and Catering Union (NGG). The history of NGG goes back to the General German Cigar Workers Association, which was founded in 1865. This makes the union the oldest labour union in Germany. Facts & Files curated an exhibition, created a website, and wrote a book on NGG’s 150 years of history.

From the year 2013 on, Facts & Files has been supervising the archive of the German Red Cross (GRC) General Secretariat in Berlin. The archive primarily holds files from the General Secretariat of the GRC from 1951, as well as the records of the GRC of the GDR, an extensive collection of Red Cross newspapers, audiovisual media, advertising materials and a billboard collection, from which this poster is from.

In April 2014, 144.317 data records of the Berlin restitution offices were made publicly available for research on the website www.wga-datenbank.de.

Facts & Files had been commissioned by the State Archive Berlin to do the editorial processing and prepare the online presentation of the data records. In the end of the year all over 430,000 data sets are published online.

The Working Group Applied History of the Association of German Historians organized a panel discussion about “History between scholarship, education and business” on March 25, 2015 in Hamburg. Frank Drauschke was invited to share our experiences in the field. A workshop addressed the training of historians at universities, and an ethic codex for the Public and Applied History sector.

Facts & Files has been organising collection days for the crowdsourcing project ‘Europeana1914-1918’ for seven years. Most of the handwritten sources from the First World War collected on Europeana1914-1918.eu can be transcribed using the online-tool www.transcribathon.eu, specially designed by Facts & Files and Olaf Baldini. Facts & Files has also organised so-called Transcribathons in various cities competitions across Europe.

For many decades, the Gallery Heinemann was one of Germany’s most prominent art dealers, until it was ‚aryanised‘ by Friedrich Heinrich Zinckgraf in 1939. The German Art Archive of the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg commissioned Facts & Files to compile the business records of the Gallery Heinemann in an online database, accessible at http://heinemann.gnm.de. The website went online in 2010 and makes information on approximately 43,500 works of art accessible.

In 1922, after many years of digging, the British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun. The exhibition ‚Tutankhamun – His Tomb and his Treasures‘ recreates the Pharaoh’s tomb as Carter found it, with stunning replicas of all the objects. Since it opened in 2008, the exhibition has toured many cities worldwide. Facts & Files produced educational material, researched the exhibition‘s images and footage, and obtained their licenses.

The Viktoria-Luise-Platz in Schöneberg was completed in 1902. The former meadow was developed by the Berlinische Boden-Gesellschaft AG, which was founded by the Haberland family. Herbert M. Gutmann, whose property is researched by Facts & Files since 2006, became co-shareholder of the company. Eugen Gutmann was co-founder of the Dresdner Bank AG. His son Herbert worked at the board of the Bank for decades, and was also on the supervisory board of the Berlinische Boden-Gesellschaft AG until 1933.

Facts & Files received the Grimme Online Award for the website ‘Youth Opposition in the GDR’ in 2005. Facts & Files curated the website, and did the research, interviews, and editing. www.jugendopposition.de highlights youth resistance in the GDR against the state. Particularly striking was that punks also belonged to the youth resistance. The punks came together in the cultural park Plänterwald in East Berlin in the 1980s.