Press Coverage & Reviews

Rachael’s work has been covered by publications and podcasts around the world including in Germany, Denmark, Czechia, and Israel. A selection is below.

• Maine Public: In memoir, Portland author retraces her grandmother's journey to share the story of the Holocaust

• The Jerusalem Post: Telling the Holocaust story to a new generation

• NBC10 Boston: Boston Native Retraces Grandmother's Holocaust Story in New Book

• Jewish Boston: Rachael Cerrotti Delves Into Memory and Grief in New Memoir

• Portland Press Herald: In memoir, they ‘share the same sky’

• Publisher’s Weekly: Starred Review of We Share The Same Sky: A Memoir of Memory & Migration

• Vulture from New York Magazine: Reader Pick

• HuffPost: The Best Podcasts of 2019

• WBUR: A Woman Retraces Her Grandmother’s Story of Survival And Escape From The Nazis

• Times of Israel: Journalist traces grandmother’s Holocaust rescue from Nazis in unique podcast

• WBUR, Boston's NPR station: Beyond Sides of History is an award-winning multimedia series that tells the story of Rachael's work in context of her friendship with author Julie Lindahl, who is also the granddaughter of a prominent SS-officer. 

• NPR: How An Oral History Revealed A Family Secret and Sparked a Friendship

• Vlasta (magazine in Czech Republic): in print, coverage of Welcome to Widowhood

• PRI's The World: Why Telling My Grandmother's Story Helped Me Better Understand Today's Refugees