- Title: VM-1320
- Summary: BABI YAR: LESSONS OF HISTORY: BABI YAR IS A RAVINE IN KIEV, UKRAINE WHERE 33,771 JEWS, FROM KIEV AND ITS SUBURBS WERE KILLED ON SEPTEMBER 29TH AND 30TH, 1941, SYSTEMATICALLY SHOT BY MACHINE GUN FIRE; SIX OF THE FOURTEEN SURVIVORS OF THIS MASSACRE WHO WERE STILL ALIVE AT TIME OF FILMING, TELL THEIR STORY. AS MANY AS 60,000 MORE PEOPLE, INCLUDING ROMA AND RUSSIAN POWS WERE LATER SHOT AT THIS SITE. holocaust, final solution, nazi germany.
- Description:00:19:22 - RUSHING WATER AS SEEN FROM SPEEDING BOAT AS IT SPEEDS TOWARDS COAST OF KIEV, LITHUANIA, PLUSH WITH GREENERY AND A HUGE IMPRESSIVE STATUE OF MAN WITH SWORD IN ONE OF HIS TWO RAISED ARMS, OVERLOOKING THE HARBOR. PAN CASTLE LIKE BUILDING JUTTING THROUGH THE GREENERY. AUTO, TRUCK, TRAFFIC ON BRIDGE, TILT UP ONE OF ITS HIGH PILLARS CONTAINING HUGE COAT OF ARMS AT TOP. VOICE OVER, "THIS IS KIEV". 00:19:47 - AERIAL PAN BEAUTIFUL CITY OF KIEV, HIGHWAY WITH TRAFFIC RUNNING OVER WATERWAY SURROUNDING THE CITY, INTO AND OUT OF CITY. VOICE OVER RUSSIAN POET, VITALY KORAVYCH, CITIZEN OF KIEV, NARRATES. MORE AERIAL VIEWS OF KIEV, "ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CITIES IN THE WORLD". PAN STREET SCENE WITH OFFICE BUILDING, TRAFFIC RIDING DOWN DARK TREE COVERED STREET. 00:21:00 - FOGGY WOODED AREA TILT DOWN TO DEEP RAVINE WHOSE SIDES ARE BARREN AS TITLE ZOOMS FORWARD, "BABI YAR", "LESSONS OF HISTORY". 00:21:11 - PAN CLIFF-LIKE WALLS OF BABI YAR RAVINE (COLOR), PAN GROUND COVERED WITH FOLIAGE, TREE BRANCHES. LOOKING UP FROM RAVINE TO BARREN TREES AT ALONG TOP EDGE . 00:21:58 - MIDDLE-AGED BALDING POET VITALY KORAVYCH WITH OVERCOAT, FACING CAMERA WITH MICROPHONE, COVERED WITH WIND SHIELD, IN HAND, SPEAKS TO CAMERA AS HE STANDS IN RAVINE. VOICE OVER TRANSLATES. VITALY TELLS HIS STORY. PAN THICK FOLIAGE, ZOOM IN ON BERRIES ON TREE. (B/W) 00:23:08 - GERMAN NURSES DIAPERING ROWS OF BABIES LAYING ON TABLES BEFORE THEM AS ANOTHER NURSE ROLLS IN ANOTHER TABLE CONTAINING ANOTHER DOZEN OR SO BABIES. AS VOICE OVER TELLS, "THESE GERMANS WERE BORN BEFORE WWII, THEY WOULD YET BECOME ORPHANS....". MCU ADOLPH HITLER MAKING SPEECH; YOUNG GERMAN BOY BEING FITTED WITH ARMY HELMET. VARIOUS VIEWS GERMAN YOUTH IN VARIETY OF TEAM ACTIVITIES; ADOLPH HITLER MAKING ANIMATED SPEECH. LS SQUADRON OF NAZI PLANES IN SKY POV GROUND. HITLER GETTING DRAMATIC DURING SPEECH; 00:23:54 - YOUNG CHILDREN GIVING NAZI STIFF-ARMED SALUTE. NURSES DOING SAME. MAN HARDLY ABLE TO RAISE HIS ARM, TRIES TO SALUTE; MOTHER HELPS DISABLED MAN IN WHEELCHAIR, SALUTE. CU NAZI FLAG WAVING IN WIND. HITLER AGAIN, NAZI FLAGS, EMBLEMS BEING CARRIED IN PARADE, ARMY NAZI SOLDIERS MARCHING TOWARDS CAMERA. AS VOICE OVER POET TRANSLATION CONTINUES. PAN DOWN NAZI EAGLE STATUE WITH SOUND OF AIR RAID SIREN BLASTING . ABOVE VIEW DEAD PERSON LAYING ON NAZI SWASTIKA. NAZI SOLDIERS MARCHING. 00:25:00 - VARIOUS POST WAR (?) RALLIES IN EUROPEAN STREETS WITH NEO-NAZI GROUPS CARRYING BANNERS, "HITLER WAS RIGHT" AND OTHER HATE SIGNS. PAN TO SWASTIKA PAINTED ON BUILDING WALL. MARCHERS WEAR DONKEY MASKS (WITH (FRENCH ?) SIGN, "IM AN ASS BECAUSE I BELIEVE TREVLINKA, BABI YAR HAS REALLY EXISTED". GRAPHIC VIEW GERMAN SOLDIER WALKING OVER ROAD PAVED WITH DEAD BODIES. CU GERMAN BOOTS MARCHING ON GROUND WHICH COVERS THE DEAD. CU PRETTY FLOWERS GROWING ON THAT GROUND. 00:25:43 - GERMAN HEAVY ARTILLERY ROLLS INTO CITY OF KIEV. MS GERMAN SOLDIER KICKS IN DOOR OF HOUSE AND ENTERS WITH OTHERS. PAN BURNING CITY OF KIEV, TILT UP SMOKE RISING TO SKY. CU NOTICE ON PUBLIC BULLETIN BOARD (RUSSIAN) TELLS OF SEARCH FOR THIS MAN, "THEY WERE AFRAID HE WOULD TELL THE TRUTH". 00:26:35 - CU PHOTO OF YOUNG MAN, AND SURVIVOR OF BABI YAR MASSACRE, FYDOR ZAVERTARMY. MS NOW ELDERLY ZAVERTARMY STANDS IN BABI YAR RAVINE, MICROPHONE IN HAND, TELLS HIS HORRIFIC STORY AND HIS MIRACULOUS SURVIVAL OF THE EVENT. "OH GOD!, IF ONLY ONE OF US COULD SURVIVE THIS MASSACRE, HE WILL TELL PEOPLE ABOUT THESE HORRORS.....". 00:27:05 - CU REMORSEFUL FACE SHOT OF ANOTHER BABI YAR SURVIVOR ELDERLY YAKOV STEYAK. CU PHOTO OF STEYAK AS YOUNG MAN. 00:27:13 - PHOTO OF SURVIVOR DAVID BUDNIK 00:27:19 - CU PHOTO OF SURVIVOR LEONID OSTROVSKY FOLLOWED BY SHOT OF AN ELDERLY LEONID AS HE LOOKS AT TIME OF FILM. 00:27:24 - CU PHOTO YOUNG ZAKHAR RUBAKOV, FOLLOWED BY CU SHOT OF ELDERLY RUBAKOV. CU PHOTO YAKAR KAPERAND CU SHOT OF YAKAR. 14 MEN SURVIVED THE MASSACRE AND ONLY SIX, ONE UKRAINIAN AND FIVE JEWS HAVE LIVED TO TELL THIS STORY. 00:27:37 - PAN BABI YAR RAVINE PLUSH WITH TREES AND BUSHES. VOICE OVER, "I WILL TELL YOU THAT IT IS A VERY BEAUTIFUL LOCALITY IF IT WERE NOT BABI YAR". '.... "THE ROOTS OF EACH TREE GROWS FROM THE REMAINS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE SLAUGHTERED HERE....". 00:27:41 - CU PHOTO VLADIMIR DAVYBOV - VLADMIR STANDS OVERLOOKING THE RAVINE TELLS STORY OF FURNACES AT BABI YAR, "THE STENCH WAS UNBEARABLE....". HE TELLS GRAPHIC STORY OF THE EVENT. VARIOUS SHOTS GERMAN MACHINE GUNNERS FIRING THEIR GUNS. NOTICES ON WALLS TELLING OF DEATH PENALTIES FOR MINOR CRIMES. VARIOUS PHOTOS GERMAN SOLDIERS KILLING AND BURYING DEAD. 00:29:30 - END.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1940
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-1320