CDS Keeping Tabs

This morning, our community gathered to observe Yom HaShoah.

We honored the memory of six million Jews by lighting six candles, heard a powerful testimony of survival, and reflected on the lives and families torn apart during the Holocaust. Standing together at the Keeping Tabs memorial, we were reminded of our responsibility to remember, to share these stories, and to live proudly and unapologetically as Jews.

May their memories be a blessing.

Today we remember the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and honor the millions of others whose lives were taken.

On our CDS campus stands Gary and Nancy Tuckfelt Keeping Tabs: A Holocaust Sculpture, a maze-like Star of David made of glass blocks filled with six million aluminum tabs, each representing one life lost. Collected and counted by CDS Middle School students over nearly a decade, the sculpture reminds us of our responsibility to bear witness and to “keep tabs on our humanity.”

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Last night CDS hosted the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh's monthly Generations Bureau meeting. Attendees got a tour of our memorial garden, including the Gary and Nancy Tuckfelt Keeping Tabs: A Holocaust Sculpture, the 10/27 memorial sculpture, the Anne Frank memorial tree, and the butterfly bush planted in honor of Gerentler family.

CDS had the incredible opportunity this past Friday to host the Deputy Secretary of the Department of Education, Cindy Marten. Joined by State Representative Dan Frankel, State Senator Jay Costa, and President & CEO of the Jewish Federation Jeff Finkelstein, the Deputy Secretary toured our Keeping Tabs Sculpture and participated in a round table with select students and staff.

We are grateful to the US Deputy Secretary of Education, Cindy Marten, for visiting CDS. This visit had a lasting impact on us.
We are all so proud to be part of the CDS community and this visit marks a historic and very special moment in the life of our school.

Squirrel Hill school plants sapling of Anne Frank's chestnut tree in honor of 2 Holocaust survivors The Community Day School in Squirrel Hill was given a piece of the chestnut tree written about in Anne Frank’s diary in honor of two Holocaust survivors with deep connections to this school.

Descendent of tree that once stood outside Anne Frank House now grows in Pittsburgh Hiding from N***s in an Amsterdam annex, Anne Frank peered out an attic window and saw a white horse chestnut tree towering over 188 Keizersgracht’s courtyard as a beacon of hope. On Feb. 23, 1944, two years into hiding, the young Jewish girl sat in silence as she and Peter

Thank you to everyone who joined us this morning for our Yom Hashoah Commemoration Ceremony. Thank you to all of the teachers and students who made this ceremony so meaningful. CDS is honored to have received one of six saplings from Anne Frank USA grown from the original Chestnut tree Anne Frank wrote about in her diary.

Please join CDS students on Monday, May 6 for a Yom HaShoah commemoration with prayer, readings, and a candle-lighting service. We invite you to a light reception immediately after the Yom Hashoah ceremony, hosted by Ruth and Scott Apter, Co-chairs of the CDS Grandparents Association.
RSVP at comday.org/yomhashoah

Mourning the loss of a beautiful soul and a connection to our Jewish history.

Holocaust survivor, storyteller and sage Moshe Baran has died at 103 Dedication to 'taking root in fertile ground,' enabled centenarian to live life of wit, wisdom, family and survival