CMS eighth graders watched the powerful theater production, "From the Fires: Voices of the Holocaust," on Wednesday morning. The play traces the life of Rachel Gold, a Berlin teenager, and her experiences from 1937 to 1945. The play follows her from the inception of the Nuremberg Laws, through deportation to Auschwitz, and finally the death march to Mauthausen.
 
 The company from Port Jefferson-based Theatre Three has visited CMS for more than 20 years to spread the play's important message.
 
 "It's still as powerful today as it was then," CMS assistant principal Frank Agovino told the students.
 
 CMS will soon welcome 97-year-old Holocaust survivor Meir Usherovitz to the school. Usherovitz similarly visited the high school earlier this month.