Numerous people around the country ate a double portion of falafel Thursday, in answer to a request by Holocaust survivor Dugo Leitner who started a death march on January 18th 1945, 72 years ago.
Leitner walked in freezing conditions of -18 degrees together with other Jews on the Auschwitz-Birkenau death march but succeeded in surviving and marks the occasion every year with a double falafel portion.