Press Coverage & Reviews

 

• 2022, WBUR: Cognoscenti at 10: Making space for human voices when the news feels too big

• 2022, Tablet Magazine: The Next Generation

• 2022, QWERTY Podcast

• 2022, Boston Globe: Library invites you to explore your roots

• 2022, All Things Considered on Maine Public: In memoir, Portland author retraces her grandmother's journey to share the story of the Holocaust

• 2022, The Jerusalem Post: Telling the Holocaust story to a new generation

• 2021, NBC10 Boston: Boston Native Retraces Grandmother's Holocaust Story in New Book (video)

• 2021, Jewish Boston: Rachael Cerrotti Delves Into Memory and Grief in New Memoir (Q&A)

• 2021, Portland Press Herald: In memoir, they ‘share the same sky’

• 2021, The Boston Globe: Rachael Cerrotti tells the story of her grandmother

• 2021, Publisher’s Weekly: Starred Review of We Share The Same Sky: A Memoir of Memory & Migration

• 2021, Tagesschau (Germany): Keine Holocaust-Zeitzeugen mehr? Was dann? (podcast) & Erinnern ohne Zeitzeugen - wird das gehen? (article)

• 2020, Vulture from New York Magazine: Reader Pick

• 2020, HuffPost: The Best Podcasts of 2019

• 2019, Tablet Magazine: We Share The Same Sky

• 2019, Israel Story (Podcast): We Share The Same Sky

• 2019, WBUR: A Woman Retraces Her Grandmother’s Story of Survival And Escape From The Nazis

• 2019, Jewish Boston: The Vibe of the Tribe Podcast, Episode 83

• 2019, Times of Israel: Journalist traces grandmother’s Holocaust rescue from Nazis in unique podcast

• 2017, WBUR, Boston's NPR station, produced Beyond Sides of History, an award-winning multimedia series that includes podcasts, articles, photographs and video to tell the story of Rachael's We Share The Same Sky project in context of her friendship with fellow journalist and granddaughter of a prominent SS-officer, Julie Lindahl. It was produced by Frannie Carr Toth & Erika Lantz of Kind World & Cognoscenti.

Suggested Listening: Kind World - Refuge (episode #49) & Kind World - The Bridge (episode #50)

Suggested Watching: Beyond Sides of History  (the video, posted by NPR, went viral, accumulating over 700,000 views in just four days).

An adaptation of this piece was also aired by NPR's All Things Considered and Here & Now : How An Oral History Revealed A Family Secret and Sparked a Friendship

• 2017, Vlasta (magazine in Czech Republic): in print, coverage of Welcome to Widowhood

• 2017, PRI's The World: Why Telling My Grandmother's Story Helped Me Better Understand Today's Refugees (interview aired on NPR)

• 2015, Næstved-Bladet (Denmark) / in print, coverage of We Share The Same Sky

• 2014, Lidové Noviny (Czech Republic) / in print, feature of coverage of the Boston Bombings