◆ A recognition

They never met.
They shared this.

Tell me something about your mother's hands. The smell, the shape, what they did.

Greta Schmidt

Niedersachsen · b. 1936

My mother's hands smelled of soap and flour, sometimes of the garden — of earth and herbs. When she tucked me in at night, her scent stayed on the pillow.

Helga Weber

Schwarzwald · b. 1940

My mother's hands were rough from doing the laundry, but in the evening when she stroked my hair they felt soft. They smelled of lavender.

Two voices. One memory. Recorded 0 days apart.

The Archive records elder voices across five Germanic cultures and finds the memories they share.