Liudmila Titova

Liudmila Titova (Ukrainian: Людмила Титова, Russian: Людмила Титова)[1] 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.

[2] She was an eyewitness of these events.

[3] (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».