Dear Erich: A Jazz Opera by Ted Rosenthal

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City

Dear Erich is inspired by 200 newly discovered letters written in Germany between 1938 and 1941 by Herta Rosenthal to her son Erich, the composer's father. Dear Erich tells a refugee story for our times. How can a family cope as the walls of their nation's hatred close in around them? For those who escape, what lies ahead? Even in…