Babi Yar

A Poem by Yevgeni Yevtushenko

Translated by Benjamin Okopnik, 10/96

No monument stands over Babi Yar.
A steep cliff only, like the rudest headstone.
I am afraid.
Today, I am as old
As the entire Jewish race itself.

I see myself an ancient Israelite.
I wander o’er the roads of ancient Egypt
And here, upon the cross, I perish, tortured
And even now, I bear the marks of nails.

It seems to me that Dreyfus is …

Babi Yar: A Warning from History

Elie Wiesel

Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate

“At Babi Yar, there are no gravestones. The people who were murdered here, tens of thousands of them, were not allowed a final resting place. Their bodies were left in the open, and later, the Nazis tried to erase even their deaths from history. But we remember. Babi Yar is not only a place, it is a warning. A reminder that hatred, if left unchecked, leads to horror beyond words.”

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