European terror victims’ families attend ceremony

The families of two of the victims of the Hyper Cacher attack, and the parents of slain security guard Dan Uzan in Copenhagen, attend a Memorial Day ceremony in Jerusalem for the terror victims killed outside Israel’s borders.

“My husband Phillipe was taken from me and from our children in the terrorist attack at Hyper Cacher in France. He was murdered for one reason: because he is a Jew. The great hatred for the Jewish people entered my home and destroyed my family. It also touches every home and family in the Jewish people. Today we all feel the same pain,” Valerie Braham says at the event, organized by the Jewish Agency.

Sergeot (Mordekhai) Uzan says his son “was a firm believer in the moral imperative to be free of prejudice.”

“His message was to dare to be good. My hope is that the democratic world will unite toward this lofty goal, and by doing so will be able to live in peace,” Uzan says.

Laurence Saada, the widow of Francois-Michel Saada, also attended the event with their daughter Emilie, and his brother Serge.

“We have discovered that the battlefield is not on the borders of Israel, but in every Israeli city, and we furthermore discovered, once again, that the battlefield is not only on Israeli soil, but in every Jewish school and synagogue, and even in kosher supermarkets around the world,” Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky says at the event. “What protects us in Israel is conventional weapons: the power of the Israeli army. In the Diaspora, what protects us is an unconventional weapon: the solidarity of the Jewish people.”