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Kind World

A Remarkable Family History

Kind World

WBUR

Kindness, Society & Culture, Profound, Personal Journals, Uplifting, Stories

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Rachael Cerrotti spent the last decade obsessing over her family history. She uncovered a remarkable story about her grandmother, Hana Dubova, who was the only person in her Jewish Czech family to survive the Holocaust.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Produced by the I Lab at W-B-U-R, Boston.

0:09.0

Welcome to Kind World.

0:11.0

I'm Andrea Aswahi.

0:12.0

And I'm Yasmin Ammer. So Andrea I was down in North Carolina

0:16.1

visiting my parents this weekend and I was looking through my old yearbooks, my old pictures, and

0:21.7

I come across this notebook from the 10th grade where a teacher

0:25.1

asked me to interview my grandmother. It was amazing to see that interview after all

0:29.2

these years. Did you ever have to do anything like that? Yeah, I do. I remember doing a family tree,

0:35.2

and I think this was back in elementary school,

0:37.5

but I remember asking my parents about their parents,

0:41.2

my grandparents, and just hearing these beautiful stories of them growing up.

0:45.3

I love doing that.

0:47.3

So imagine doing that project, you know, tracing your family history for years.

0:53.0

That's what Rachel Serati did.

0:54.8

She uncovered this incredible story.

0:57.4

Rachel's story aired in 2017,

0:59.4

but we wanted to share it with our listeners again today,

1:02.3

with a little something extra.

1:04.0

Stay tuned afterward like an adult.

1:20.0

She was a college student and visiting her grandmother,

1:23.0

Hannah Dubova, outside of Philadelphia.

1:25.0

She had this box of wine and it was like only slightly expired red wine,

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