In the early 1990s, I worked as a Russia representative of the Foreign Media Affairs, a Dutch film production company and at Anthony Potter Productions, USA. As a Dutch correspondent, I was the first non-Russian media who filmed the fragments of Hitler’s cranium at a Russian Archive and took part in a discovery of the grave of Hitler and his wif... Read More

In the early 1990s, I worked as a Russia representative of the Foreign Media Affairs, a Dutch film production company and at Anthony Potter Productions, USA. As a Dutch correspondent, I was the first non-Russian media who filmed the fragments of Hitler’s cranium at a Russian Archive and took part in a discovery of the grave of Hitler and his wife Eva, and the Goebbels family in Magdeburg, East Germany. Since 1994, I have been a freelance film and video researcher, location manager and interviewer of Russian generals, historians, cosmonauts, submariners, celebrities including Mikhail Gorbachev. In 1996, I represented the Russian Film and Photo Archives in Krasnogorsk at the Story of the Century Conference in London where I joined the Federation of Commercial Audiovisual Libraries (FOCAL). My biggest research projects were the Boris Yeltsin Museum in Ekaterinburg and the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow (Ralph Appelbaum Associates). I also provided archives for the film The Good German (Warner Bros). In 2006, the Academy nominated me for Emmy in “Research – Personal Achievement” for the PBS film The Rape of Europa / Stolen Art but eventually another project won. Read Less