The Scar of the Earth

Macha Ovtchinnikova author of the film follows the tracks of her greatgreataunt in Kyiv while her mother tells the story of the aunts death revealing a dramatic episode of the Holocaust In my greatgreatmothers home a little blackandwhite picture represented deserted hill covered with dry grass A little black cross traced on the photograph indicated the approximate place where her sister Esfir was buried with her family Before the war Esfir had a happy family a husband and three children They lived in a Jewish neighborhood of Kyiv close to the Babi Yar ravine