The phrase "a living memory" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a memory that is still vivid and fresh in someone's mind, often related to personal experiences or significant events.
Example: "The events of that day remain a living memory for all who witnessed them."
Alternatives: "a vivid recollection" or "a fresh memory".
The Weissmann parents, for whom Nazis are a living memory, are ever mindful of their social roles.
The Facebook page, "Remembering Suvash Darnal" has been set up in his honor by the CDDRL community as a living memory of his life.
Many dear, long standing friends and fellow travelers share this loss, though she will be a LIVING memory forever The Chaplin, Mexican Group.
For its original audiences, the war was a living memory, and the wartime feeling of being separated from one's family over Christmas would be very real.
"We want to ensure that a living memory is created for generations to come," said Vikki Heywood, chair of 14-18 Now.
Compromise would anyway be impossible while the war is a living memory: polls suggest that public opinion in mainland Britain is firmly against any concession.
An elderly retired Cape Verdean laborer, Ventura (playing himself), wanders about as a sort of living memory of the neighborhood's "ghosts" and sees his longtime friend, a guard in Lisbon's Gulbenkian Museum (which Ventura helped to build), gain a foothold on middle-class comforts, even as one of Ventura's own long-ago love letters to his wife takes on the status of local legend.
The members of the Emerson String Quartet, a wonder of our time, play a Strad and a Montegazza, 18th century Italian instruments, plus a violin and a cello produced in living memory by Samuel Zygmuntowicz of Brooklyn.
In a speech last week in San Diego, where Curiel sits, Trump unleashed an attack against the judge that was unlike any by a Presidential candidate against a sitting judge in living memory.
This has been one of the best starts to a shark season in living memory".
The Art Newspaper, which reported the incident, called it "one of the most serious handling accidents known to have occurred in a U.K. museum in living memory".
