Jewish Community Services of South Florida (JCS) hosted their annual “Matzah Mitzvah” on March 8. Volunteers gathered at Bet Shira Congregation in Pinecrest and Scheck Hillel Community School in North Miami to assemble Passover food and care baskets for more than 400 Holocaust survivors across Miami-Dade County.
Some volunteers also took on the task of delivering those packages. One was to Miriam Brejt, 90, who spent months in a Ukrainian ghetto and eventually found freedom in Losova, a city in Ukraine, when the war ended. Another was to Lucy Lowell, 105, who is recognized as one of the oldest Holocaust survivors in the county. Both survivors receive food assistance, live-in homecare, transportation, and more through the JCS Holocaust Survivor Assistance Program.
To learn more about the program, visit jcsfl.org.