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From January 21, 2015, our exhibition “Shot in Moscow…” German Victims of Stalinism at the Moscow Cemetery Donskoje 1950-1953 was shown at the Memorial Leistikowstraße in  Potsdam. The online edition of the German news magazine “Der Spiegel” reported about the “speaking walls” of the KGB prison  at Leistikowstrasse in Potsdam.

Facts & Files was commissioned by the Foundation German Museum of Technology, Berlin to organize and index the corporate files of the company Telefunken GmbH from the years 1903 till 1950 which are held at the German Museum of Technology, Berlin. Telefunken was founded as joint venture by Siemens & Halske and AEG in Berlin in 1903. It was a radio and TV-set company. Please see for the finding aid online here.

We started the research commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museums in Washington, D.C. on the former “NS-Archiv” des DDR-Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit im Zwischenarchiv Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten  at the Federal Archives Berlin in 2001. Later we also conducted research at the archive of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records. Our research is part of the USHMM International Acquisitions and Reproduction Program which aims to compile files from European archives that document the persecution and massacre of the Jewish people in Europe.

On April 17, 2000, the German news magazine “Der Spiegel” published an article on the start-up Facts & Files. Titled with “Old files, new facts” it also reinterpreted our firm’s name. The article is online here.

One of Facts & Files’ first projects investigated the role of insurance companies in confiscating Jewish life insurance policies during the Nazi era. On behalf of the
International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC), Facts & Files consulted more than 50 archives in 11 countries to collect information on the policies and their owners.