1. Visit to Babi Yar ravine

    · Babi Yar, Kyiv, Ukraine

    His visit to the ravine near Kyiv informed “Babi Yar,” the poem that made him internationally famous for confronting antisemitism and the massacre's memory. The source connects the visit to the 1961 publication of “Babi Yar,” but does not give a day or month for the visit.

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