About the exhibition
The exhibition “Shot in Moscow…” The German victims of Stalinism at the Donskoye cemetery in Moscow 1950-1953 was conceived and created in 2006 as a traveling exhibition by Memorial International, Moscow, Facts & Files Historical Research Institute Berlin Berlin and the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship, Berlin. In 2025, it was edited by Facts & Files Digital Services GmbH and adapted for online presentation.
Exhibition venues since 2006
The exhibition has been presented in 25 memorial sites and institutions in Germany and Austria since 2006. It has been on permanent display at the DDR History Museum in Perleberg since 2024. A Russian version of the exhibition was shown at Memorial in Moscow and other locations in Russia.
| Since April 24, 2024 | DDR History Museum Perleberg |
| January 21, 2015 to January 20, 2016 | Memorial and meeting place Leistikowstraße Potsdam |
| April 27, 2014 | Bautzner Straße Memorial, Dresden |
| November 18 to December 15, 2013 | Old archive of the Erfurt town hall |
| November 17 to December 15, 2009 | Karl-Franzens-University Graz |
| October 16 to November 13, 2009 | Lower Austrian Provincial Archives St. Pölten |
| May 30/31, 2009 | Humboldt University of Berlin |
| October 21 to November 24, 2008 | St. Mary’s Church in Grossenhain |
| June 17 to October 15, 2008 | German division memorial Marienborn |
| April 18 to June 16, 2008 | Moritzplatz Memorial Magdeburg for the victims of political tyranny 1945-1989 |
| March 6 to April 15, 2008 | Point Alpha Memorial |
| January 24 – March 5, 2008 | Town hall of the city of Chemnitz |
| December 5, 2007 – January 21, 2008 | Hamburg State Archives |
| November 5 to 30, 2007 | Eberswalde University of Applied Sciences |
| September 10 – October 4, 2007 | Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom Truman House, Potsdam |
| July 10 – September 4, 2007 | Documentation and Information Center (DIZ) Torgau |
| June 11 – July 6, 2007 | Town Hall of the Hanseatic City of Rostock |
| May 2 – June 4, 2007 | Sparkasse Vogtland in Oelsnitz |
| March 23 – April 28, 2007 | Round Corner” memorial, Leipzig |
| Sept. 23 – Nov. 3 2006 | Red Ox” memorial, Halle |
| Aug. 21 – Sep. 22 2006 | Thuringian State Parliament, Erfurt |
| June 20 – July 30, 2006 | Schwerin Regional Court |
| May 5 – June 18, 2006 | Bautzen Memorial |
| April 1 – May 2, 2006 | Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial |
| March 9 – March 29, 2006 | Representation of the Free State of Thuringia to the Federal Government, Berlin |
Imprint of the exhibition
Illustrations
We would like to thank the following organizations and individuals:
AlliiertenMuseum e.V., Berlin
Archives of the universities in Berlin (FU, HU), Leipzig and Rostock
Federal Archives, Berlin and Koblenz
Federal Archives, Berlin-Tegel (formerly WASt – German Office for the Notification of Next of Kin of the Fallen of the former German Armed Forces, Berlin)
Federal Archives, Stasi-Document Archive (formerly BStU)
German Red Cross Tracing Service, Munich and Berlin
Eberswalde University of Applied Sciences
Landesarchiv Berlin
State Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former GDR, Berlin, Dresden, Erfurt and Schwerin
MfS Museum, Berlin-Lichtenberg
Museum of uranium mining – traditional site of uranium ore mining in Saxony and Thuringia, Schlema
Police History Collection, Berlin
Press and Information Office of the Federal Government, Berlin
Russian State Archives (GARF), Moscow
Riesa Municipal Center for History & Art
German Museum of Technology Foundation (DTMB), Berlin
Saxon Memorials Foundation, Dresden and Bautzen
T&G Films GmbH Filmproduktion, Berlin
Association of Former Rostock Students (VERS), Dannenberg
Wismut GmbH, Chemnitz
Central archive of the Russian secret service FSB, Moscow
Private lenders
Touring exhibition
Concept, texts, scientific collaboration
Frank Drauschke, Olga Eßlinger, Christoph Herrmann, Daniela Nicklisch, Jörg Rudolph, Alexander Sachse, Beate Schreiber, Irina Scherbakowa, Christian Schölzel, Elena Zhemkowa
Design and realization
Sanne Jäger and Stefan Walter
Online exhibition
The online exhibition was created by Facts & Files Digital Services GmbH.
Project management and concept: Frank Drauschke
Web design and graphics: Narmin Gurbanowa
Front-end programming: Jasmin Salesevic
Back-end programming: Tommy Schmucker
Translation: Narmin Gurbanowa, Frank Drauschke
Consultation: Historians from Facts & Files Historical Research Institute Berlin Berlin.
The creation of the online exhibition was funded by the Berlin Commissioner for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship and the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship in Berlin.
