Babi Yar. Context May 2026

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

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

Explores complicity, the "Holocaust by Bullets," and the subsequent Soviet attempts to erase the memory of the site. Anatoly Kuznetsov’s 1966 documentary novel Babi Yar was

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

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 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