Anica Černej
1900–1944
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Yugoslavia
- Occupation
- poet
Anica Černej (3 April 1900, in Čadram, Oplotnica – 3 May 1944, in Neubrandenburg) was a Slovene teacher, author and poet.
Incarceration history
- Ravensbrück concentration campDates unknown
Biography
Anica Černej (3 April 1900, in Čadram, Oplotnica – 3 May 1944, in Neubrandenburg) was a Slovene teacher, author and poet. She wrote poems for children, youth and adults, lectured on youth literature, and in 1922 published an essay about the children's poet, Oton Župančič. Černej died in 1944 in Neubrandenburg concentration camp after being arrested in 1943. A school in Makole, a kindergarten in Celje and streets in Slovenske Konjice, Slovenska Bistrica and Dogoše near Maribor are named after her.