Kenny & Ziggy’s Hosts 10th Annual Deli Month Holocaust Survivors Luncheon
National Deli Month event honors area Holocaust survivors
A portion of sales from Kenny & Ziggy’s three-course prix-fixe menu goes to the Holocaust Museum Houston
Their numbers grow smaller every year, but the stories they lived and lessons they teach only grow more and more important.
These are the people who nearly 85 years ago lived childhoods learning untold horrors in camps, hiding with sympathetic families while being separated from their own and as refugees across Europe.
Every year since founding National Deli Month a decade ago, Kenny & Ziggy’s New York Delicatessen Restaurant & Bakery has set aside one day in August to celebrate these survivors at a special private luncheon.
The luncheon is a part of the 10th annual National Deli Month, a celebration of the great American Jewish delicatessens that span North America.
This year more than three dozen delicatessens representing ten states and Canada are participating. The coordinated celebration was begun in 2016 by Ziggy Gruber.
Each participating deli spotlights signature dishes or creates a special menu for the month.
A portion of sales from those goes to a charity of their choice in their community. Kenny & Ziggy’s has created a three-course prix-fixe menu from which a portion of sales goes again to Holocaust Museum Houston.
Participants included:
Morris Narunsky – 1944
Ben Waserman – Berlin, 1929
Ruth Steinfeld – 1933, Sinsheim, Germany
Jerry Mendelson – Born: April 8, 1937 or 39 in Poland
Pauline Rubin- Belgium 1937
Rose Rosenthal – Paris, France, 1929
Bill Orlin – Brok, Poland, 1932
Michelle Flornoy – 1943
Paulette Flatowitcz
George Somogyi – Hungary
Hans Mayer – Germany
Agnes Guthrie
Gabriel Perry
Liya Yoffe
Marion Blitzer
Susie Marshall
About National Deli Month:
National Deli Month runs through August 31. For participating delicatessens across North America, visit www.delimonth.com.
Kenny & Ziggy’s is located at 1743 Post Oak and is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Sunday. For more information, call 713-871-8883 or go to www.kennyandziggys.com.
Photos: V. Sweeten