Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Yevgeny Yevtushenko (b.1933)

Yevtushenko is one of the most celebrated figures in contemporary Russian poetry. He was allowed to travel in Europe and America to give readings. I was fortunate to hear him both in Moscow and in New York. His most famous poem is Babii Yar. It was written in 1961 and is an elegy for the 96,000 Jews executed during the war by the Nazis in a ravine near Kiev; it is also a fierce indictment of Russian anti-Semitism.

Babii Yar, the poem

Another translation of Babii Yar

Map of Babii Yar, Kiev

Discussion of Yevtushenko

The U.S. Holocaust Museum

A guide to holocaust sites on the web

The U.S. Holocaust Museum web site

Holocaust Paintings

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