Literary archives of Shloyma Borisovich Chernyavskiy

Shloyma Chernyavskiy was born on Sept. 12, 1909, in Volyhnia, Ukraine. He was orphaned at age 10 and was raised in an orphanage. In 1930 he graduated from the Jewish Pedagogical College in Kiev, Ukraine. He worked at the publishing house"Der Shtern" in Kiev in 1930 and published his first work in 1931. Chernyavskiy's poetry has been translated into Russian and Ukrainian. He is the author of several poetry books that were published between 1936 and 1975 and posthumously in 1983. Chernyavskiy died in Kiev in 1974

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Source of acquisition is the Instytut i︠u︡daïky (Judaica Institute), Ukraine. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the photocopied collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in Sept. 2003.