Along The Seam
ALONG THE SEAM is a podcast from author Rachael Cerrotti where she explores topics of inherited memory, family history and intergenerational storytelling with guests from all corners of the globe. These are conversations about conflict infused with hope and kindness. Along The Seam is the examined place in between past and present, our old selves and new selves, and moving from one space towards another.
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Along The Seam
11. Betty Grebenschikoff - Reunited
*To Note: ALONG THE SEAM was formerly named The Memory Generation. In this first season, you will hear Rachael use that title in the intro and outro.*
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This story starts with two best friends and grew up in Berlin in the 1930s. Together, the young girls experienced rising antisemitism and in 1939, each of their families fled. At just 9-years-old, they said a tearful goodbye to each other and promised to keep in touch, but neither knew where the other one went or if they even survived. One of these girls, a woman named Betty Grebenschikoff, who is now in her 90s, never stopped looking for her best friend. And amazingly 82 years later, thanks to the testimony Betty gave to USC Shoah Foundation in 1997, the two women were reunited. In this conversation, Rachael and Betty discuss how memories of our past can change as life unfolds.
Betty & Rachael recorded this conversation on April 7, 2022 at Betty’s home in St. Petersburg, Florida. Betty passed away not long after the episode aired.
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