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Farm to Truck helps feed more than 400 central resource for residents in need, offering food assisjcapitelli@liherald.com tance, housing guidance, job readiness programs and other Fresh fruits, vegetables and services to individuals and other foods full of protein were families. While its regular food distributed to hundreds of Glen pantry is limited to registered Cove residents last week, when clients, the EOC also hosts the Farm to Truck program broader community distribustopped at the city’s Economic tions and outreach initiatives intended to reach a Opportunity Comwider population, mission of Nassau particularly those County office in facing financial Glen Cove, expandchallenges because ing access to nutriof the region’s high tious food as grocost of living. cery costs continue The April 10 to rise. event was divided Operated by into morning and Long Island Cares, afternoon distribua nonprofit organitions, according to zation and the main Program Director food bank on Long STEPHANIE EVANS Irma Jeanty. Island, the mobile Glen Cove “There were initiative delivers over 200 [families] fresh, locally sourced produce directly to communities using a that received food that mornrefrigerated truck designed to ing,” Jeanty said. The event function like a small farmers was open to all Glen Cove resimarket. The program gives res- dents. The EOC opens its food idents a chance to choose their pantry to regular clients once a own food based on family size, month. Residents who attended rather than receiving prepointed to rising costs as a key packed bags. More than 400 people attend- factor. Stephanie Evans, of ed two distributions held at the Glen Cove, said she came for EOC site on Glen Cove Avenue. vegetables. “Everything is too expensive The nonprofit social services organization that serves as a CONTINUED ON PAGE 11

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Holocaust survivors and their descendants lit candles to honor those killed by the Nazis.

Remembering the Holocaust through survivor testimony By ROKSANA AMID ramid@liherald.com

The last time Bertha Strauss saw her mother, she was given a simple instruction: Take care of your brother. She was 6 years old. “I remember being smuggled out of the camp in a truck,” Strauss told a hushed audience on Sunday at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center in Glen Cove. “And my mother saying to me, ‘Always take care of your brother.’ That was the last time I saw my mother.” Now 90 and living in Fresh Meadows, Strauss shared her story during the center’s annual Yom HaShoah commemoration, an

evening dedicated to remembering Holocaust victims and preserving survivor testimony. The program, held in partnership with Congregation Tifereth Israel and North Country Reform Temple, brought together survivors, victims’ descendants and community members to reflect on the enduring responsibility of remembrance. Strauss began by tracing the dismantling of Jewish life in her hometown of Karlsruhe, Germany, following Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. Jewish professionals were forced out of their jobs, businesses were boycotted and the 1935 Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of citizenship and basic rights. “Women had to put in their middle name, CONTINUED ON PAGE 7

t keeps food in the house so my family doesn’t have to starve.