Top footballers from Chelsea FC join World Jewish Congress for mass global initiative to raise awareness about the Holocaust

Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich, as well as several of the club’s top players, have joined the World Jewish Congress this week in its third annual We Remember campaign to raise awareness of the horrors of the Holocaust and the dangers of all forms of antisemitism and xenophobia.
 
Chelsea Football Club, which has partnered with the WJC since last January as part of its ‘Say No to Antisemitism’ Campaign, posted a video to its social media platforms on Tuesday featuring the stars of its team holding We Remember signs and spelling out clearly the importance of Holocaust memory in fighting racism and discrimination.
 
Link to Chelsea’s FC’s We Remember post: https://www.facebook.com/ChelseaFC/videos/1296508440488269/
 
Participating players featured in the video include world-renowned forward Eden Hazard and Chelsea FC captain Cesar Azpilicueta. The two were joined in the video message by players David Luis, Olivier Giroud, Marcos Alonso, Emerson Palmieri, assistant coach Carlo Cudicini, manager Maurizio Sarri, and Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich.
 
Brazilian first league power Corinthians ALSO joined the campaign last week, posting photos with messages of remembrance to their social media platforms.
 
The World Jewish Congress’ We Remember campaign, which debuted in 2017, calls on people around the world to photograph themselves holding a We Remember sign, and post it to social media using the hashtag #WeRemember. More than 650 million people, or 1 in 11 on the globe, were reached in the 2018 campaign, which saw participation of top decision-makers, state leaders, celebrity, and business people around the world.
 
“With levels of antisemitism, xenophobia and Holocaust-denial rampant and rising across the world, it is imperative that the memory of the Holocaust be shared more widely than ever, to ensure that the atrocities we witnessed just seven decades ago never repeat themselves,” said World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder. “A concerning report by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) last month found that nine out of 10 European Jews said they believed antisemitism was getting worse, and a shocking CNN poll released shortly before that found that more than one-third of Europeans know little to nothing about the Holocaust. With fewer survivors among us, it is the responsibility of the next generation to keep their stories and memories alive. Together, we must remember the past to protect our future for generations to come.”