Liudmila Titova



Liudmila Titova (Людмила Титова, Людмила Титова) was a Jewish-Ukrainian poet from Kiev, wife of the poet Ivan Yelagin (Іван Єлагін) also from Kiev, whom she had first met as a schoolgirl. Her famous poem "Babi Yar" written in 1941 – discovered only in the 1990s – was the first-ever literary work devoted to the 1941 massacre of Ukrainian Jews during the Holocaust. She was an eyewitness of these events.

"( excerpt in Russian ) Ты видишь, видишь снег кровавый Идет, и все становится багряным. Да, и такое снится киевлянам, И я уже не верю, что когда-то Была на свете «Аппассионата»."