◆ A recognition

They never met.
They shared this.

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

Anna van der Berg

Drenthe · b. 1938

My mother's hands always smelled of soap and butter from cooking. Sometimes of the garden, of thyme. In the evening I could smell her hands on the sheet.

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.