documentary film about Babi Yar

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

Overview

Description: 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
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Simpson Library at University of Mary Washington and Dr. Ray Charles Kasper

Language: English Ukrainian
Genre/Form: Documentary.
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

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.

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
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive