Volunteers deliver thousands of free Hanukkah meals to Holocaust survivors in New York City

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Throughout the holiday season, volunteers gathered at a warehouse in Brooklyn and packed thousands of boxes of food."For people who unfortunately have to be alone for the holiday, just having some sense of holiday and knowing people are thinking about you I think is especially meaningful," Greenfield said."So now we've expanded the program ... we're delivering 2,100 packages of food every week to Holocaust survivors throughout the New York area who are still homebound and who have nobody else to care for them.""And some of the notes are coming from 8-year-old kids who are just sitting there packaging and while they're coming in, they're learning that there was once something called the Holocaust and there are people who survived and it was terrible, and we have to give back.""She struck up a friendship where she actually writes and calls regularly with this 90-something-year-old Holocaust survivor.""

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