Babi Yar. Context | Genuine

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

The film includes footage from the trial of 15 Nazis and collaborators, which helped bring the details of the massacre to light. 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 Anatoly Kuznetsov’s 1966 documentary novel Babi Yar was

Composed entirely of restored black-and-white and color footage from German and Soviet archives. 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 to the Babi Yar ravine and shot by the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing squads).