Babi Yar. Context Page

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

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

🚩 Babi Yar. Context is less about the act of the massacre itself and more about the visual atmosphere of the time—showing the people, the propaganda, and the terrifyingly "normal" environment in which such an atrocity occurred. The Einsatzgruppen and the Holocaust in Ukraine Babi Yar. Context

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

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

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

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. Gettysburg College Directed by Sergei Loznitsa, this film

The documentary situates the massacre within the broader invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa).