◆ 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.

Tryntsje de Vries

Fryslân · b. 1940

My mother's hands smelled of soap and butter. Sometimes also of the garden — of earth and the herbs she picked. In the evening I could smell her hands on the sheet.

Two voices. One memory. Recorded 0 days apart.

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