We Share the Same Sky
Blackstone Publishing (Verlag)
979-8-212-53521-2 (ISBN)
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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 her family alive at the end of the war. Rachael also knew that she survived because of the kindness of strangers. It wasn’t a secret. Hana spoke about her history publicly and regularly. But, Rachael wanted to document it as only a granddaughter could. So that’s what they did: Hana talked and Rachael wrote.
Upon Hana’s passing in 2010, Rachael discovered an incredible archive of her life. There were preserved albums and hundreds of photographs dating back to the 1920s. There were letters waiting to be translated, journals, diaries, deportation and immigration papers as well as creative writings from various stages of Hana’s life.
Rachael digitized and organized it all, plucking it from the past and placing it into her present. Then she began retracing her grandmother’s story, following her through Central Europe, Scandinavia, and across the United States. She tracked down the descendants of those who helped save her grandmother’s life during the war. Rachael went in pursuit of her grandmother’s memory to explore how the retelling of family stories becomes the history itself.
We Share the Same Sky weaves together the stories of these two young women—Hana as a refugee who remains one step ahead of the Nazis at every turn, and Rachael, whose insatiable curiosity to touch the past guides her into the lives of countless strangers, bringing her love and tragic loss. Throughout the course of her twenties, Hana’s history becomes a guidebook for Rachael in how to live a life empowered by grief.
Rachael Cerrotti is an award-winning author, educator, curator, and podcaster. Through an interdisciplinary practice, she explores stories rooted in the humanity of grief and inherited memory. Her flagship work, the critically acclaimed We Share the Same Sky, is a decade-plus-long project following her grandmother’s wartime history. That story has been shared as an award-winning narrative podcast and memoir, various museum exhibitions, workshops, and as a classroom resource for educators worldwide. Rachael was the Inaugural Storyteller in Residence for USC Shoah Foundation and has been a fellow with the Witness Institute and New America. She now hosts the Along the Seam podcast and works with organizations, institutions, and individuals on storytelling projects and community programming. Rachael was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and now lives in Maine. You can learn more about her work at www.RachaelCerrotti.com
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.08.2023 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| ISBN-13 | 979-8-212-53521-2 / 9798212535212 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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