Babi Yar. Context [2027]

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

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. Context

The "context" of Loznitsa’s title also refers to how the event was handled after the war ended. On September 29–30, 1941, 33,771 Jews were marched

Avoids traditional voiceover, allowing the raw imagery of the Nazi invasion, the Soviet withdrawal, and the local population's reactions to speak for itself. Avoids traditional voiceover, allowing the raw imagery of

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

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

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