Babi Yar. Context Review: Sergei Loznitsa’s Deeply Moving Witness to Dark Days
In September 1941, on the banks of the Babi Yar ravine, some 34,000 Jewish men, women, and children were rounded up, shot, and buried in the loose sand. It was the beginning of the so-called final solution, the first time Hitler and his troops would carry out what would result in the deaths of millions upon millions of Jews and other “undesirables.” The event stands as a morbid talisman to the industrialized cruelty of the Third Reich, and with rising hatred and bloodshed, this historic wound continues to fester to this day. Celebrated and provocative director Sergei Loznitsa returns to