TSINNO. BO TVOE Memory Journal
MEET TSINNO. BO TVOE
We are proud to present a Ukrainian project created to help families preserve the stories that too often remain untold. Its memory journal invites meaningful conversations and gives a loved one the space to record a life in their own words and handwriting.
The story behind the journal
Some of the most important family stories live only in memory: the home where someone grew up, a first love, a favorite recipe, a difficult choice, a dream that was never spoken aloud.
TSINNO. BO TVOE was created from a simple realization: one day, the questions we keep postponing may no longer have someone to answer them.
The journal offers gentle questions in Ukrainian and space to answer in one’s own handwriting. Page by page, a familiar voice becomes a story the family can return to for years.
The 270-page journal brings together 128 carefully developed questions based on more than 30 in-depth interviews with Ukrainian women age 45 and older. The questions were reviewed by a psychologist so that they invite honest memories gently and respectfully.
Its chapters follow an entire life—from childhood, family roots, youth, love, and motherhood to personal and national memory. They preserve not only family traditions, recipes, and turning points, but also first-hand accounts of the Soviet era, Chornobyl, the 1990s, Ukraine’s revolutions, displacement, and war.
More than 500 families already have the journal. Each completed book becomes both a family heirloom and a personal historical testimony. Together, these voices form a living archive of the nation’s memory—one that no official document or museum collection could recreate on its own.
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