WE SHARE THE SAME SKY: A Memoir of Memory and Migration, Rachael Cerrotti

A granddaughter’s decade-long journey to retrace her grandmother’s wartime escape and weave together the thin threads of family history. In 2009, Rachael Cerrotti, a college student pursuing a career in photojournalism, asked her grandmother, Hana, if she could record her story. Rachael knew that her grandmother was a Holocaust survivor and the only one in […]
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Rachael Cerrotti Rachael Cerrotti is an award-winning photographer, writer, educator and producer. Her work explores the intergenerational impact of migration and memory. She currently works as an audio producer and digital storyteller with USC Shoah Foundation. In 2019, Rachael released her first podcast — We Share The Same Sky. It was the first-ever narrative podcast […]
WE SHARE THE SAME SKY, Rachael Cerrotti
Documentarian and educator Rachael Cerrotti tells the story of Cerrotti’s grandmother’s escape as a young girl from the Nazis, a journey which takes her from her native Czechoslovakia to Denmark to Sweden, where she arrives with no money, belongings, friends or contacts, and finally to America; by retracing her grandmother’s steps, Cerrotti recounts her own […]