At the historic Wannsee Conference House, on September 9, 2024, a conference titled “Distorting History: Preserving the Truth about the Holocaust in Germany and in an International Perspective” took place. The event was organized by Bundesverband RIAS e.V. (Federal Association of Departments for Research and Information on Antisemitism), which is part of the European Network on Monitoring Antisemitism (ENMA) project.

ENMA is an international network of organizations dedicated to monitoring and collecting data on antisemitic incidents across Europe.

The event responded to the growing phenomenon in Europe of the instrumentalization of Nazi crimes by certain interest groups in pursuit of their political goals, contributing to the trivialization of Holocaust narratives and repeated instances of its denial. A group of experts and researchers from the fields of education, administration, and media analyzed similarities and differences in antisemitic incidents occurring in Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, and Germany, explored new perspectives in combating antisemitism, and examined the impact of current international events on the rise of antisemitic attitudes.

The Jewish Association Czulent, a member of the ENMA project, was represented by its President, Piotr Kwapisiewicz, who presented the Polish perspective.