Here’s what I came up with for our weekly assignments: 1. Book, semi-fictionalised account, graphic novel, radio programme, TV documentary, children’s book… Comments and suggestions welcome… I don’t know what direction it might take from here. Each participant had family connections to the Holocaust, and each very different stories and approaches to writing. The subject was how to write a memoir of your own family story. I’ve just completed a six-week online writing course with author and journalist Nick Barlay, in a Zoom class of six others. If only I’d asked people more questions while they were still alive… but thank goodness for the internet, which just keeps giving… Then I worked out where the gaps in my knowledge were, and tried to fill them in. I started this blog in May 2014 as a way of making sense of all the inherited objects I had gathered from my mother’s house in Sydenham, and trying to piece the story together with the bits I knew already. Several thousand books on the Holocaust are published every year can yet another one have a different slant on what has already been said elsewhere? Unlike a book, it doesn’t matter where in the story you start, and you can go back and rewrite bits, or merge articles, or delete them altogether. I’ve found the blog is such a user-friendly way of accumulating ideas and recording them. Several have asked me if I plan to make a book out of what I’ve uncovered of my family story.
I’ve had many comments from readers of this blog, which has now extended to nearly 100,000 words.
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