The easiest and most meaningful way to begin is to write down your parents’ and grandparents’ names. Our template shows you how.
Adopting Alma: His Father’s Past Had Shaped His Present
Al Rayburn writes his story of adopting a Muslim Bosnian teen, paying forward the kindness that helped his father survive the Holocaust.
Family Events: Getting Out of Germany in 1939
Al Rayburn captured his father’s story of leaving Germany as a Jewish teenager in 1939.
Family Objects: A Jewish Identity Card from Nazi Germany
Family Storykeeper Al Rayburn writes about the day his father quietly shared his Jewish identity card.
Writing His Father’s Story Put His Life in Perspective
Al Rayburn used the Storykeeping method to write his father’s World War II journey and discovered his own story in the process.
How She Wrote the Stories of the Women Who Raised Her
With her kids grown and her mother and grandmother gone, she used the Safekeeping Stories method to turn family memories into a keepsake book.
5 Reasons Why Holocaust Survivors Were Silent About the Past
For children and grandchildren of survivors, finding words for the silence is often where the family story begins.
