BABYN YAR. CONTEXT. R/11 BORIS DRACHENFELS

BORIS DRACHENFELS The testimony of Wachtmeister Boris Drachenfels-Kaljuveri, of the Police battalion “Ostland”, at the trial of case No.1679 “On the atrocities committed by fascist invaders on the territory of the Ukrainian SSR”. Kiev, January 22, 1946. "Babyn Yar. Context" – is a documentary project presented by The Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and Ukrainian director Sergey Loznitsa. The project will consist of 20-25 episodes edited from archive materials taken from 1941 – starting with the Nazi invasion of the USSR – to 1966, when the first architectural competition for the design of the Babyn Yar Memorial was organised. Each episode is a complete story, directly or indirectly related to the tragedy of Babyn Yar.