What is “Zeitzeugnis”?

Pronounced: [tsite-tsoyg-nis]
In German, Zeit means time, and Zeugnis means testimony or witness account. Together, Zeitzeugnis translates to “testimony of our time” — authentic voices and memories preserved for future generations. At zeitzeugnis.org, we carry this idea into the digital age: recording, archiving, and sharing the living voices of contemporary witnesses in groundbreaking 3D.

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Authentic Voices

We preserve the testimonies of eyewitnesses in lifelike 3D – so that future generations can meet them face to face.

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Education

Our recordings are used in schools, museums, and digital learning platforms to bring history to life.

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Safeguarding Historical Truth

We capture personal experiences with the highest precision to protect them from being forgotten or distorted.

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Digital Cultural Heritage

Each testimony becomes part of a growing global archive for research, media, and public education.

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Empathy & Understanding

Direct encounters with witnesses in immersive environments create emotional connections and deep understanding of history.

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Global Collaboration

Our project unites partners from science, technology, and culture to make memories accessible worldwide.

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Highlighted Initiatives

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How you’re keeping testimony alive

Preservation

We capture survivors and eyewitnesses in high-resolution volumetric video and store their testimonies with archival-grade standards. The result: lifelike 3D records of voice, gesture and presence — saved for researchers, classrooms and future generations.

Education & Research

Our archive provides verified, contextualised primary sources for schools, universities and museums. Educators and scholars use the material to teach history, ethics and critical media literacy — with immersive learning experiences that outlast any textbook.

Public Access & Engagement

We make testimonies accessible through controlled public displays, VR experiences and curated online access—so communities can meet history respectfully, responsibly and directly.

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Technology

Preserving Presence Through Volumetric Video

Process of volumetric video

Keeping Testimony Alive in a 3D World

Young audiences today grow up in 3D worlds — through video games, virtual reality, and immersive devices. Traditional 2D video, once powerful, is slowly losing its impact. In the future, old flat footage may no longer connect to the next generations.

That’s why we capture eyewitnesses in volumetric 3D. This technology preserves not just their words, but their full presence — the way they move, speak, and look at you. It ensures that when immersive media becomes the norm, their stories will still feel real, close, and unforgettable.

We are not only saving history — we are making sure it can still be truly experienced.

Why This Project Is Different

Beyond 2D and VR

Some projects have filmed survivors in 360° VR video — but this is fundamentally different. VR video captures only one perspective: you can look around the scene, but you cannot move around the person. It flattens presence into a single viewpoint. Our approach is true volumetric capture: you can walk around the eyewitness, stand face-to-face, and experience their presence as if they were in the room with you.

Unmatched Resolution

To ensure authenticity, we capture with over 2,500 megapixels per frame — far beyond conventional film or VR projects. This extreme resolution preserves every detail: the movement of hands, the lines on a face, the emotions in the eyes. Resolution matters, because memory deserves nothing less than complete fidelity.

A Race Against Time

We are working to record as many stories as possible while it is still possible. With every year, voices are lost forever. These volumetric testimonies are not just memories — they are evidence, preserved for future generations.

Truth Against Misinformation

In an age of fake news and digital manipulation, authentic, high-resolution 3D testimony becomes a safeguard of truth. No distortion can replace the power of standing in front of a survivor and hearing their words, preserved exactly as they were spoken.

By supporting this project, you help create the world’s most advanced and enduring archive of eyewitness memory — a living legacy that no lie can erase.

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Testimonials

The following witnesses have been filmed in lifelike 3D so their voices, presence, and memories remain accessible for future generations.

“Only by preserving the stories of the survivors for future generations can we hope to prevent such atrocities from happening again.”

Tova Friedman- Ausschwitz survivor

“I came back to talk to you. To reach out to you and ask you to be the witnesses that we won’t be able to be for much longer, she said time and again. That was her hope, her mission.”

Margot Friedländer – Holocaust survivor († 09.05.2025)

“When you work with electronic databases you forget that millions of individual destinies are hidden behind megabytes. On the other hand, when you see huge shelves with millions of files and folders, that is different. You become yet again aware of the singularity of the Holocaust.”

Ivan Lefkovits – Holocaust survivor
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hours of video