Babi | Yar. Context

🚩 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

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

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

The film includes footage from the trial of 15 Nazis and collaborators, which helped bring the details of the massacre to light. On September 29–30, 1941, 33,771 Jews were marched

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

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

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.