Twilight Tour with Community Day School
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Twilight Tour with Community Day School

CDS students, families, teachers, alumni and friends gathered on Thursday, Aug. 23 for a Twilight Tour of the Gary and Nancy Tuckfelt Keeping Tabs: A Holocaust Sculpture.

August 30, 2018, 4:50 pm 0 Edit
From left: Holocaust survivors Sam Gottesman, Harry Schneider and his wife, Patty Schneider, and Moshe Baran light memorial candles with the help of Lauren Bairnsfather, director of the Holocaust Center of Greater Pittsburgh. (Photo courtesy of Community Day School)
From left: Holocaust survivors Sam Gottesman, Harry Schneider and his wife, Patty Schneider, and Moshe Baran light memorial candles with the help of Lauren Bairnsfather, director of the Holocaust Center of Greater Pittsburgh. (Photo courtesy of Community Day School)

Community Day School students, families, teachers, alumni and friends gathered on Thursday, Aug. 23 for a Twilight Tour of the Gary and Nancy Tuckfelt Keeping Tabs: A Holocaust Sculpture.

The evening included a candle-lighting memorial ceremony by Holocaust survivors, tours led by student docents and a special address by retired CDS history teacher Bill Walter, the visionary educator who launched the collection of the 6 million pop tabs in the sculpture to demonstrate to his students the sheer magnitude of the loss suffered during the Holocaust.

CDS alum and current high school student Sophia Levin leads a guided tour of the Keeping Tabs Sculpture. (Photo courtesy of Community Day School)
Visitors also had the opportunity to take a virtual reality tour of the Keeping Tabs Sculpture developed last year by CDS Middle School students in conjunction with students and faculty at the Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center and Notre Dame College in South Euclid, Ohio.
Art and Marlene Silverman take a virtual reality tour of the Keeping Tabs Sculpture. (Photo courtesy of Community Day School)
Steve Gelernter and his mother, Holocaust survivor Fanny Gelernter, with CDS Head of School Avi Baran Munro. (Photo courtesy of Community Day School)

 Pittsburgh Shinshinim (young Israeli emissaries) Raz Levin and Hadar Maravent light a memorial candle. (Photo courtesy of Community Day School)
CDS eighth-grader Gabriela Berger and her mother, Dr. Rachel Berger, play music during the Twilight Tour. (Photo courtesy of Community Day School)

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