1. Babi - Noun
2. Babi - Adjective
Babi (plural Babis)
A Babist.
Bábí (not comparable)
Pertaining to Babism.
Bábí (plural Bábís)
A follower of Babism.
People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko's poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken. Art destroys silence. Dmitri Shostakovich
I was overjoyed when I read Yevtushenko's "Babi Yar"; the poem astounded me. It astounded thousands of people...People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko's poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken. Art destroys silence. Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Historians have that Ukrainian collaborators guarded the Babi Yar ravine and facilitated the Nazis in rounding up Jews, and this was borne out by testimonies at the war crimes trials. Source: Internet
Sharansky, who was born in 1948 in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, recalls being arrested on his way from Moscow to one of the annual clandestine and illegal memorial gatherings at Babi Yar in the mid-1970s. Source: Internet
The memorial at the site of the Babi Yar killings, seen in 2019, includes a large menorah. Source: Internet
An early partial list of those killed in the brutal massacres at Babi Yar. Source: Internet