Rachel Black

“Look at me, child.” Rachel Black almost always writes in a plaintive key, but the Lawrence singer knew that this personal piece—the true tale of the moment her great-grandmother forced her daughter to leap from a moving cattle car on the way to the gas chambers of the Holocaust—cried out to be written in a major key. To Black, that’s the sound of bravery, hope, and a mother’s sacrificial love.
– Kansas City Star

The song that brought the crowd to tears begins with a mother’s frantic command.
– Washington Times

When Black sang the piece for the first time in Topeka as part of the [2018] Kansas Holocaust Commemoration Service, the audience members wept. In Overland Park, at a concert at Congregation Beth Torah, they wiped away tears and then rose in ovation.
– US News & World Report

The song that brought the crowd to tears begins with a mother’s frantic command.
– Washington Times

When Black sang the piece for the first time in Topeka as part of the [2018] Kansas Holocaust Commemoration Service, the audience members wept. In Overland Park, at a concert at Congregation Beth Torah, they wiped away tears and then rose in ovation.
– US News & World Report