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).

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 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

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

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

The "context" of Loznitsa’s title also refers to how the event was handled after the war ended.

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