For decades, the Soviet government suppressed the specifically Jewish nature of the victims, referring to them only as "peaceful Soviet citizens."
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. Context
Explores complicity, the "Holocaust by Bullets," and the subsequent Soviet attempts to erase the memory of the site. the "Holocaust by Bullets
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