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documentary film about Babi Yar

Film | Accession Number: 2005.373.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4200 | Film ID: 2677

Documentary film about Babi Yar including archival footage and interviews. At times, the narration does not accurately support the footage, images are sometimes misused. Captured Nazi footage, photographic stills, and newsreel footage were obtained from various Russian archives (see notes for more details). Scenes show Kiev, Hitler, Hitler Youth, Nazi flags with swastikas, US protest posters, neo-Nazi scenes, deportation, piles of victims' belongings, Dina Pronicheva's testimony at the war crimes trials in Kiev, Jewish boycotts, undressing sequences, the chief of Kiev Ukrainian Police Kajvada, and the Babi Yar monument. Interviews feature Fyodor Zavertanny, Yakov Steyuk, David Budnik, Leonid Ostrovsky, Zakhar Trubakov, Yakov Kaper, Vladimir Davydov, Genya Batashova, and Galina Voytyuk.


Film Title
Babi Yar-Lessons of History
Film Collection Title
Ray Charles Kasper, PhD Collection
Duration
00:41:58
Date
Production:  1985?
Locale
Kyiv (Kiev), Soviet Union
Ukraine
Language
English
Ukrainian
Genre/Form
Documentary.
Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Simpson Library at University of Mary Washington and Dr. Ray Charles Kasper

About This Film

B&W / Color
Color
Image Quality
Good
Time Code
01:00:48:00 to 01:42:46:00
Film Format
  • Master
    • Master 2677 Film: positive - 16 mm - color - optical track - print
    Master 2677 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
    Master 2677 Film: positive - 16 mm - color - optical track - print
    Master 2677 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
    Master 2677 Film: positive - 16 mm - color - optical track - print
    Master 2677 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
    Master 2677 Film: positive - 16 mm - color - optical track - print
    Master 2677 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
  • Preservation
    • Preservation 2677 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
    Preservation 2677 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
    Preservation 2677 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
    Preservation 2677 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Special Collection
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Film Provenance
This film was donated to LeRoy Strohl of the Simpson Library at the University of Mary Washington on May 22, 2003 by Dr. Ray Charles Kasper. The film was presented to Dr. Kasper by the USSR's Minister of Peace in 1982 when Dr. Kasper was a guest speaker of the Writers Union of the USSR. LeRoy Strohl donated the film to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in September 2005.
Note
Produced for Ukrainian Studio of TV Films
Producers: Vitaly Korotych, Vladimir Georgiyenko, Alexander Shlaen, Anatoly Vashchenko, Khein Solganik
Presented by Vitaly Korotych, poet

Credits on film indicate that the historic films come from the: Central State Archives of Cinephotodocuments of the USSR; USSR Gosfilmfond; Central State Archives of Cinephotodocuments of the Ukrainian SSR; Central State Archives of the October Revolution of the USSR; Central State Archives of the October Revolution of the Ukrainian SSR; Central Scientific Library of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences.
Film Source
LeRoy S. Strohl III
File Number
Legacy Database File: 4419

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
Copyright
Public Domain
Conditions on Use
To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.

 
Record last modified: 2022-07-28 22:05:21
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