Amadeu Antonio was an Angolan contract worker living in Eberswalde in Brandenburg. On the night of November 24, 1990, a mob of about 50 far-right youths armed with baseball bats rampaged through the town, targeting Black individuals. They found Amadeu Antonio and two Mozambican men in a restaurant and viciously attacked them. While the two others managed to escape despite their severe injuries, 28-year-old Amadeu Antonio was beaten into a coma from which he never woke up. Two weeks later, on December 6, he succumbed to his injuries in the hospital. Tragically, his son was born only a few weeks after his death and never met his father, growing up in Brandenburg with his mother and three sisters.

Since 1990, at least 219 people have been killed as a result of right-wing violence in Germany. Today, a far-right-motivated crime is committed every 23 minutes. The Amadeu Antonio Foundation fights for the recognition of the victims by state authorities, who have thus far officially acknowledged only 83 of these murders as hate crimes. Through its own case documentation and records, the Foundation works to honor the memory of those murdered by right-wing extremists and to ensure their stories are remembered with dignity.