tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16870355.post6436649722071934978..comments2023-10-26T18:14:42.928+02:00Comments on Monk's Progress ~: Yevgeny Yevtushenko ~Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16789609881681811818noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16870355.post-44878622936165063722017-07-06T07:54:20.773+02:002017-07-06T07:54:20.773+02:00Charles, I just noticed that you mentioned me in y...Charles, I just noticed that you mentioned me in your post. Thanks for the honor! Be well. humorqueenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18292083271509952453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16870355.post-64274731553838471102017-04-07T10:49:51.770+02:002017-04-07T10:49:51.770+02:00I found out about Yevtushenko's passing from o...I found out about Yevtushenko's passing from one of my past students, <b> Nancy Leff </b>, from the the then Point Park College in Pittsburgh who remembered me reading this poem to the class. Then I took a book of Yevtushenko's poems down off my shelf that a former student, <b>Steven Tatrai</b>, had given me when I left the college.Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16789609881681811818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16870355.post-52885168301731996502017-04-06T17:51:36.086+02:002017-04-06T17:51:36.086+02:00Yevtushenko's poem commemorates the massacre c...Yevtushenko's poem commemorates the massacre committed by the Nazi Einsatzgruppe during World War II at Babi Yar, in a ravine located within the present-day Ukrainian capital of Kiev. In just one of these atrocities – taking place over September 29–30, 1941 – Jewish men, women and children numbering 33,771 were killed in a single Einsatzgruppe operation.<br /><br />http://remember.org/witness/babiyar<br /><a href="http://remember.org/witness/babiyar" rel="nofollow">Read the poem Babi Yar in English Translation</a>Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16789609881681811818noreply@blogger.com