#WeRemember: UK community joins global initiative to recall the Holocaust

The WJC’s campaign is simple: asking participants worldwide to photograph themselves with a sign that reads “We Remember,” in their own language, and to upload their image onto social media using the hashtag #WeRemember.

The response has been overwhelming with more than 200,000 people taking part so far, either individually or in group pictures, from every continent and in dozens of languages – with many more to come ahead of tomorrow’s Holocaust Memorial Day. And this week the Auschwitz museum projected the campaign’s images on the grounds of the infamous camp.

WJC chief Robert Singer said: “Anti-Semitism is more prevalent today than any time since 1945. That’s why we all must declare, together, that we remember.”

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Among those featured:

• Reuven Rivlin, Israel’s President
• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
• Luciana Berger, Labour MP
• Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis
• Sajid Javid, Conservative MP
• Karen Pollock, Chief Executive, Holocaust Educational Trust
• Simon Johnson, Chief Executive, Jewish Leadership Council
• Nick Ferrari, TV and radio presenter
• Laura Janner-Klausner, Senior Rabbi to Reform Judaism
• Jonathan Arkush, President, Board of Deputies
• Robert Singer, Chief Executive, World Jewish Congress
• Olivia Marks-Woldman, Chief Executive, Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
• Maajid Nawaz, Founder Quilliam Foundation
• Ronald Lauder, President, World Jewish Congress
• Dr Ruth Westheimer
• Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s Defence Minister
• Moran Atias, Israeli actress and TV producer
• Dani Dayan, Consul of Israel, New York
• Richard Ferrer, Jewish News Editor
• Isaac Bachman, Israel’s Ambassador to Sweden
• Eliot Engel, US Congressman
• Lithuanian Embassy in Tel Aviv
• Gillian Merron, Chief Executive, Board of Deputies
• Arsen Ostrovsky, International lawyer
• Ditmir Bushati, Albanian Foreign Minister
• Josef Schuster, President of the Central Council of Jews
• Didier Reynders, Belgian Foreign Minister
• Ron Huldai, Tel Aviv Mayor
• US Senator, Chuck Schumer
• Hocine Drouiche, Imam, Nîmes, France
• Tamara Cohen, Sky News political correspondent
• Klaus Welle, Secretary General of the European Parliament
• Charlotte Knobloch, WJC Holocaust Memory Commisioner
• Jan Jambon, Belgian Interior Minister
• Yosef Gorvin, Holocaust survivor
• Oliver Dowden, Conservative MP
• Jerrold Nadler, US Congressman

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