26 January 2004 - 4 April 2004

From an occasional encounter with a museum visitor, a story surrounding two families developed that deals with both German film and 20th-century German history. In 2002, Till Heidenheim from Hamburg visited the permanent exhibition and discovered the name of his brother on a panel with a list displaying the names of 1,400 German Jews who had been working in the film business up to 1933. But also his father Hans Heidenheim, who wasn′t mentioned on the list, had been with Ufa as a film vendor. The name of Willi Schönland – who worked as a sound assistant for Ufa in Babelsberg and participated in the Olympic Games, emigrated, got imprisoned at the concentration camp in Westerbork and, after 1945, joined the film business again – wasn′t listed anywhere either.
The museum dedicated the exhibition to the two "forgotten persons", showing photos and documents from the 1920s, 1930s and from the years after 1945, depicting the fates of Hans Heidenheim and William Schönland.