"The article describes the Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste organization – ASF (Action Reconciliation Service for Peace), the values that underlay its establishment, and the way that it worked from its inception in 1958 to the 1990s, stressing on the organization’s activities in Israel. The article examines the process through which the organization changed over three main periods: 1958-1968, 1968-1980, and 1980-1992. For each period, the organization’s activities are examined in parallel with the trends in shaping memories of the Holocaust and the Nazi past in West German society. For each time period, the...