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Singer Clare Burson had always wanted to know about the early life of her Jewish grandmother, Helga Rabinowitsch. Yet Rabinowitsch was reluctant to talk about it with her granddaughter and for good reason: Helga, then 19, and her younger brother Axel left Germany on Nov. 9, 1938. Later that night, a pogrom occurred in which 91 Jews were killed and over 7,000 Jewish businesses were destroyed, an event now known as Kristallnacht. Both Rabinowitsch and her brother ended up in America and never saw their parents again.
It was this desire to know more about Helga’s life that led Burson, who is originally from Memphis, to become a history major in college. It also inspired her to write and record her latest album, ‘Silver and Ash,’ which is due out Sept. 14.
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