 Inspired by the conviction of the French sociologist and philosopher Maurice Halbwachs, “that all of us unconsciously are ‘an echo’ of events that happened before our time”, the aim of the project was a documentation of the oldest inhabitants of the region and their often traumatic stories.With the intention to create a space “for words, phrases, images, faces that convey a sense of the area”, a “collection of fragments” emerged with portraits and stories of 50 inhabitants in eight villages.2010 the project was presented to the public with an exhibition at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) in Vienna and in the National Art Gallery in Sofia.