◆ A recognition

They never met.
They shared this.

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

Wim Bakker

Friesland · b. 1935

My mother's hands were rough from working in the stable. But when she tucked me in at night they felt soft and smelled of soap.

Maria du Toit

Karoo · b. 1934

I remember my mother's hands smelled of soap and dough. When she hugged me, I always smelled her. Hands that smelled of work, of home.

Two voices. One memory. Recorded 0 days apart.

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