And so it began. Children of the Community Day School started to collect soda can tabs, the goal being six million. Each one was to symbolize a Jewish victim of the Holocaust to help kids visualize the shear scope of that number. It took ten years to do it, ten years of perseverance and dedication. It took finding an architect to donate time and design the sculpture. Finally, the tabs were inserted into glass blocks — 6,250 tabs per block, 960 total blocks. The design was to be a giant Star of David. Everything was set, except for one crucial element — there was no money to build it.

The Community Day School came to Fitting Group to put together a brochure that would generate interest, and, at the same time, secure donations. This entailed two things: creating a special "voice" that would tell the story, and a look that would be impactful, tasteful and true to the theme. A few weeks later, "Keeping Tabs, A Holocaust Sculpture" was born, asking potential donors not to "discard the truth" and bring life to a magnificent memorial.

There is no way to describe the groundwork so many children did for this project. Or the eventual goal. We were just proud to be a part of it. Proud to have been chosen to create this piece. Proud of its powerful outcome.