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Two archival biographies, rendered exactly as a family receives them, plus the children's version of one of them.
For privacy reasons, every sample on this page is synthetic. The three subjects are composites, not real people, and every portrait and cover image is generated, so no family's private material is published here. What is real is the history around them: the events, places and migration routes are accurate, and the archival photographs are authentic historical records.
Archival flipbook
Documented life, social world, and inner life, rendered as a permanent memorial keepsake.
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Archival flipbook
The same format in Greek, for a family that commissioned a biography in their own language.
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Children's version
The same life, told for grandchildren: a shorter, illustrated version built from the same biography.
Open the flipbook →Five memorial pages, written end to end by the same system a family’s commission runs through. Each is labelled a sample on the page itself; the people are invented, the history around them is real. Each memorial is reached at its own address, and every link opens on the biography.
Kromni, Pontus · Kalamaria, Thessaloniki
1901 – 1986
A dressmaker of the Pontic Greeks, carried from Kromni to Kalamaria in the exchange of 1923.
Visit the memorialChios · Munich
1921 – 1999
An island life carried into a German city, held together by faith kept at home.
Visit the memorialKavala
1905 – 1958
A life lived whole in one harbour town, through occupation and the hard years after.
Visit the memorialPatras
1908 – 1971
A city never left, and the stories and processions that held it together.
Visit the memorialLarissa · Chicago
1930 – 2001
From a village near Larissa to the Greeks of America, and everything carried across.
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