We Share the Same Sky: Friendship During War

Rachael Cerrotti
September 11 – October 30, 2025

About This Exhibition

In 1939, Hana Dubova was sent with a cohort of Czech Jewish teens from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to safety in the Danish countryside; she was 14 years old and now a refugee. Seventy-five years later, Hana’s granddaughter, photographer Rachael Cerrotti, set out to retrace her grandmother’s survival story. This included returning to Denmark and moving in with the descendants of those who helped save her grandmother’s life. This exhibition blends together archive pictures and diary entries from the early years of the war with contemporary photographs of Denmark to tell a story of intergenerational friendship, love, and loss.  

About the Artist

Rachael Cerrotti is an award-winning author, educator, and curator whose work is rooted in family history and inherited memory. Her flagship project, We Share The Same Sky, tells the story of her decade-long journey to retrace her grandmother’s war story. The project has been presented as a narrative podcast, memoir, curriculum, and a series of exhibitions. Amongst many accolades, the We Share The Same Sky podcast was listed as a “Show We Love” by Apple Podcasts, and the book won the Maine Literary Award in 2022. Rachael lives in Portland with her family.