Students Meet with Holocaust Survivors
CSW was honored to welcome two moving and impactful speakers this mod. Holocaust survivor Jack Trompetter was born in 1942 in Amsterdam and spent the first three years of his life in hiding, separated from his parents who were in hiding elsewhere. Jack lived with an aunt, then at an orphanage and finally with the DeGroot family at a farm in eastern Holland, while his parents hid in the south. In 1945, when Jack was three-years-old, he was finally reunited with his parents. Alan Stern, who also visited and shared his story, is the child of a holocaust survivor.
Thank you to JSAS (Jewish Student Affinity Space) and Paul Capobianco, who teaches the History Department’s “Holocaust and Human Behavior” course for bringing these speakers to campus.
CSW—a gender-inclusive day and boarding school for grades 9-12—is a national leader in progressive education. We live out our values of inquiry-based learning, student agency, and embracing diverse perspectives in every aspect of our student experience. Young people come to CSW to learn how to learn and then put what they learn into action—essential skills they carry into their futures as doers, makers, innovators, leaders, and exceptional humans who do meaningful work in the world.