With $2.50 in her pocket, Rosa Ginsberg left her family behind in Shanghai, China, in 1940 for an uncertain future in the United States. The 18-year-old native of Vienna landed at Angel Island in San Francisco Bay, site of a U.S. immigration station that processed hundreds of thousands of immigrants from 1910 through 1940. She left Angel Island for the mainland on the basis of a mostly true story.

On July 14, experience the Angel Island debut of Shanghai Angel, a one-woman musical written and performed by Heather Klein, Rosa’s granddaughter. The 45-minute piece chronicles Rosa’s journey from Nazi-occupied Austria to Angel Island. The songs are composed from Rosa’s perspective, revealing the internal world of a young refugee woman held in detention.

Heather Klein is a classically trained soprano and Yiddish chanteuse who performs musical theater, Yiddish classical song, theater and folk music.

Tickets for the performance are free but registration is required to reserve a seat in the Detention Barracks Museum. The show will begin at 2:00 pm.

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