Babi Yar. Context Site

The film includes footage from the trial of 15 Nazis and collaborators, which helped bring the details of the massacre to light.

For decades, the Soviet government suppressed the specifically Jewish nature of the victims, referring to them only as "peaceful Soviet citizens." Babi Yar. Context

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

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

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

Following the German occupation of Kyiv, a series of explosions set off by Soviet NKVD agents destroyed German-occupied buildings.