Babi Yar. Context 🏆

Abstract: After the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, the Wehrmacht occupied much of the western Soviet regions. Gettysburg College

Explores complicity, the "Holocaust by Bullets," and the subsequent Soviet attempts to erase the memory of the site.

On September 29–30, 1941, 33,771 Jews were marched to the Babi Yar ravine and shot by the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing squads).

Composed entirely of restored black-and-white and color footage from German and Soviet archives.

Anatoly Kuznetsov’s 1966 documentary novel Babi Yar was a landmark effort to break this silence, despite heavy Soviet censorship.

The German military command used these explosions as a pretext to "liquidate" the Jewish population of Kyiv.

Directed by Sergei Loznitsa, this film is a "found footage" documentary that reconstructs the events leading up to and following the massacre of over 33,000 Jews in the Babi Yar ravine.

Babi Yar is often cited as the largest single massacre under the Nazi regime at that point in the war. 🏛️ Post-War Context & Memory

Abstract: After the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, the Wehrmacht occupied much of the western Soviet regions. Gettysburg College

Explores complicity, the "Holocaust by Bullets," and the subsequent Soviet attempts to erase the memory of the site.

On September 29–30, 1941, 33,771 Jews were marched to the Babi Yar ravine and shot by the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing squads).

Composed entirely of restored black-and-white and color footage from German and Soviet archives.

Anatoly Kuznetsov’s 1966 documentary novel Babi Yar was a landmark effort to break this silence, despite heavy Soviet censorship.

The German military command used these explosions as a pretext to "liquidate" the Jewish population of Kyiv.

Directed by Sergei Loznitsa, this film is a "found footage" documentary that reconstructs the events leading up to and following the massacre of over 33,000 Jews in the Babi Yar ravine.

Babi Yar is often cited as the largest single massacre under the Nazi regime at that point in the war. 🏛️ Post-War Context & Memory