Hands-on learning with Agi Sardi · Featuring NotebookLM
Real family stories. Created with care. Preserved in print.
A personal project, shared with you
What stories would you like your family to remember?
I began with my mother’s testimony, family photographs, and the stories I wanted to pass on. Along the way, I created illustrated books about Jutka’s life and our Schwarz–Szőnyi family roots. Now I’m sharing the process with you.
You don’t need to begin with a perfect archive. Begin with one person, one memory, and the wish to keep their story alive.
In this course, we use AI through practice, not just theory. We’ll explore how NotebookLM can help you work with your own source materials, ask questions, and begin shaping a meaningful remembrance project.
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Gather the pieces
Start with a letter, an interview, a photograph with a caption, or a memory you’ve written down. Identify the people and moments you want to preserve.
02
Explore the story
Use NotebookLM to ask questions across your materials. Follow answers back to the sources and distinguish documented facts from recollections.
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Shape a family legacy
Begin an illustrated narrative, a family history, or a resource relatives can explore. Agi’s books show how a project can grow through revision into print.
From my family archive
Stories you can hold in your hands.
These books grew out of my own remembrance work. Explore the current editions alongside The Heart and the Head, or open the earlier revisions below to see how the stories developed.
Current edition · October 9, 2026
The Transylvanian Years
The Schwarz-Szonyi Family Legacy 28 pages · 8.5 × 11 inches · Glossy hardcover
The Schwarz–Szőnyi family’s Transylvanian roots and Dr. Zoltán Sándor Szőnyi’s journey from young painter to physician. Family memories, photographs, testimony, and archival research preserve the people behind the names.
Bookemon listing: story of survival – jutka – mackenzie 40 pages · 8.5 × 11 inches · Hardcover
My mother, Judith Sardi, née Szőnyi, remembered a childhood near Szeged interrupted by the Holocaust. Her testimony and family memories preserve her resourcefulness and humanity for a new generation.
The glossy and matte hardcovers are two print formats of the same revision.
Published August 27, 2026
The Heart and the Head
28 pages · 8.5 × 11 inches · Glossy hardcover
An earlier telling of my mother Jutka’s Holocaust experiences in 1944–1945. Judith Sardi, née Szőnyi, remembered these years with the perspective of a survivor and the vivid memories of the young girl she had been. This family biography preserves her story for those who come after her.
This is for lifelong learners who want to remember a loved one, document family history, or collect stories from someone who can still tell them.
Start small: one person and a few materials you’re comfortable working with. You can build a meaningful project step by step.
AI can help organize and explore what you have. The original sources, your judgment, and your family’s voices remain at the heart of the story.
What will we use?
The course features Google’s NotebookLM, with practical examples from Agi’s family projects. Explore NotebookLM ↗
Do I need a finished manuscript?
No. A few letters, an interview transcript, or written memories can give you a place to begin.
Do I need to buy the example books?
No. They’re examples of Agi’s process and optional purchases. Use the previews to explore them.
Can I make a book for my family?
Yes—that is one possible direction for your project. These examples show a route from source materials to an illustrated book printed through Bookemon.
Class reference · Explore before or after our workshop
Survivor Stories: An Interactive Dialogue
The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust offers an interactive experience with prerecorded testimony from ten Holocaust survivors. Visitors can ask questions about their lives before, during, and after the Holocaust, and AI helps connect those questions with recorded responses.
Available online and at the museum, this project offers an example of how technology can help preserve testimony and invite the next generation into a conversation about history. It was developed with USC Shoah Foundation and USC Libraries.
Zac explores Survivor Stories. Agi AI Academy co-founder Zac Sardi interacts with the Museum of Jewish Heritage’s experience in New York—a personal example of how technology can connect us with preserved survivor testimony.
The responses in this museum experience come from prerecorded survivor interviews.
My mother, Judith (Jutka) Szőnyi, shares her memories in her own voice. Part 1 of her recorded testimony.
Preserving my mother’s voice
My mother Judith’s testimony
My mother’s recorded memories are at the heart of this project. Hearing Judith tell her story in her own voice connects our family’s past with the generations who will carry it forward.
Watch both parts of her testimony and see the original source that helped inspire our family books and this course.
View & buy earlier edition ↗
View & buy earlier edition ↗