Musical Tribute to Victims of Babi Yar Massacre

In honor of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, filmmaker Daniel Finkelman produced a haunting instrumental music video set in Kiev, Ukraine, at the site of the Holocaust’s greatest massacre.

Babi Yar is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and a site of massacres carried out by German forces and local collaborators during their campaign against the Soviet Union.

The most notorious and the best documented of these massacres took place from 29–30 September 1941, wherein 33,771 Jews were killed. The decision to kill all the Jews in Kiev was made by the military governor, Major-General Kurt Eberhard, the Police Commander for Army Group South, SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln, and the Einsatzgruppe C Commander Otto Rasch. It was carried out by Sonderkommando 4a soldiers, along with the aid of the SD and SS Police Battalions backed by the local police.

The massacre was the largest mass killing for which the Nazi regime and its collaborators were responsible during its campaign against the Soviet Union, and is considered to be the largest single massacre in the history of the Holocaust.

It is estimated that between 100,000 and 150,000 people were killed at Babi Yar during the German occupation.

Produced by Daniel Finkelman – http://www.sparksnext.com
Music composed by Cecelia Margules – http://ceceliam.com
Arranged by Haim Cotton
Piano – Haim Cotton
Violin – Michael Guttenberg
Mixed and mastered by Dave Darlington
DP Sawyer Purman and Ben Anderson
Line produced by Alexandra Filonchuk
Associate producer – Malky Zejger
Actress – Olena Vilenskaya
Thanks to Roman Vilenskiy