Alfred Landecker was born in Germany in 1884, accountant, husband, father - and Jewish. The Nazis deported him 1942 from his apartment in Mannheim and eventually murdered him. His fate had been forgotten over decades. We want to change that.The Alfred Landecker Foundation fights against Racism and Antisemitism both offline and online. We will support democratic structures in free democracies to protect minorities and their rights.

In remembrance of the victims of National Socialist injustice, the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future works to promote human rights and understanding between peoples. It also upholds its commitment to the survivors. The Foundation is thus an expression of the continuing political and moral responsibility of the state, industry and society for the wrongs committed in the name of National Socialism.

The German-Israeli Future Forum provides funding and support for people from Israel and Germany working together in bilateral projects which tackle the challenges arising in both societies whilst also dealing with German-Israeli relations. Future refers here not only to the next generation, but also to new topics, perspectives, and avenues.

Recollection and knowledge of one's own history give foundation, stability and confidence to democratic culture. This is what the future of democracy depends on. The National Socialist crimes - the genocide of the European Jews, of Sinti and Roma, as well as the prosecution and extinction of political dissenters and social fringe groups, not least the triggering off of the 2nd World War as a war of aggression and annihilation - all these have left distinct traces in our nation. The policy of unlawfulness and prosecution by the SED-dictatorship, the prevention of democratic will-forming, the restriction of personal liberties as well as the oppression of large parts of the population by means of a gigantic political surveillance machinery for decades formed the consciousness and behaviour of our society in the former GDR. Remembering these various phases of German history in the 20th century not only means recognition of the suffering and memory of the victims, appreciation of resistance and human sense of decency, but also a moral, individual and social turning back to the own past: Irrespectively of any personal guilt, it is prerequisite for each generation to develop their own access to history. The lessons from the past are components of a stable democratic future.