◆ A recognition

They never met.
They shared this.

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

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.

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.