Babi Yar. Context Apr 2026
The film includes footage from the trial of 15 Nazis and collaborators, which helped bring the details of the massacre to light.
The German military command used these explosions as a pretext to "liquidate" the Jewish population of Kyiv. Babi Yar. Context
Explores complicity, the "Holocaust by Bullets," and the subsequent Soviet attempts to erase the memory of the site. The film includes footage from the trial of
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
Received a Special Jury Prize (L'Œil d'or) at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival . 📜 Historical Context (September 1941)
On September 29–30, 1941, 33,771 Jews were marched to the Babi Yar ravine and shot by the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing squads).