“We’ll Meet Again: A New American Musical” comes to life Sept. 23 on the Davidson High School stage. A patriotic and life-affirming story, “We’ll Meet Again” is inspired by the life of Henry Stern and his family’s remarkable odyssey and narrow escape from Nazi Germany, their immigration to America, and their integration and settlement in Alabama.

In 1937, then 5-year-old Heinz Stern and his family escaped Westheim, Germany, under Nazi