WE SHARE THE SAME SKY

WE SHARE THE SAME SKY is an interdisciplinary project that tells the story of my decade-long journey to retrace my grandmother’s wartime history. It started in 2009 when I was in college and asked my grandmother to tell me her story. I knew she was the only Holocaust survivor in her family and spent the wartime years being saved my strangers. Our time talking about her past along with the extensive archive she left behind after her death led me across Europe and the United States to explore how memories are passed from one generation to the next. This story has been retold as a narrative podcast, memoir, and curated for exhibitions, as well as used as a base for family history workshops, classroom curriculums, art-based programming, and more. Learn more at: www.sharethesamesky.com.

  • Podcast

    We Share the Same Sky was released in 2019 in partnership with USC Shoah Foundation. The show received numerous accolades and is paired with classroom resources. You can listen wherever you get your podcasts and right online.

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  • Memoir


    We Share The Same Sky: A Memoir of Memory & Migration was released in 2021 by Blackstone Publishing. It is available in hardcover, paperback, e-book and audiobook (read by the author). The book includes photographs and can be purchased as a classroom set. It is accompanied by a discussion guide and classroom resources.

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  • Exhibitions


    We Share The Same Sky has been adapted for numerous museum exhibitions across the United States including a traveling exhibition originated at the Florida Holocaust Museum.

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  • Education

    Using photographs, video, audio, archival documents, testimony, and personal stories, Rachael brings her grandmother’s story, entwined with her own journey, into classrooms and communities worldwide. She works with with students of all ages from as young as fourth grade through adult education.

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