Stone ID:

N04B

Location:

Wall of Memory

Grounded/Loose:

grounded

Intact/Fragment:

fragment Group:

Location X/Y:

Location GPS:

Material:

Color: grey Dimensions W H D, cm:

Inscription Style:

incised letter

Inscription Character Height, cm:

Name Original:

גיטל

Name English:

Gittel

Surname Original:

Surname English:

Father Original:

יוסף

Father English:

Yosef

Husband Original:

Husband English:

Gender:

female

Death Date Hebrew:

--

Death Date:

Age:

62

Birth Date:

Profession:

Primary Symbol:

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here buried
she was benevolent to the poor
God-fearing was she all the days
goodhearted and generous in nature
to her (final) resting place she departed 'in the year
sixty and two of the days of her life'
the lady Gittel daughter of [h] Yosef, died
[...], may her soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life

Acrostic Original:

גיטל

Acrostic English:

Gittel

Additional Original:

Additional English:

Stone Condition:

broken but good

Conservation:

Recovered from a walkway behind the house at vul. Adama Mitskevycha 8 in downtown Dobromyl in March 2016, then installed in a newly-constructed Wall of Memory at the Dobromyl Jewish cemetery in May and June 2016; see the web page About Dobromyl for more information.

ID Tag Poistion:

Recovery Date:

2016-03-12

Recovery GPS:

Other Notes:

[N] Her name Gittel גיטל appears as an acrostic, lines 2-5, with the letters somewhat enlarged. As is often the case, the acrostic is accompanied by a rhyming feature [in this case minimal] – an '-im' sound at the ends of lines 2&3 and an '-ah' sound for lines 4&6.
[N2] Literally 'with the poor'.
[N3] The literal 'God-fearing' is a translation that is widely-accepted, meaning 'devout'. 'God' is inscribed 'ד rather than 'ה, the standard abbreviation for Hashem השם [The Name]. Appearing only in writing, 'ד represents an even-higher level of 'distancing' than that provided by 'ה, but is nevertheless voiced 'Hashem'.
[N6] Note that 'חי is an abbreviation for חייה [her life] and is shortened to avoid writing יי [double yod] and יה, two different divine names.
[N8] There is space enough here for perhaps another six or so letters beyond the ע – seemingly insufficient for a full date of death, presumed lost, outside the realm of this fragment.

See About Dobromyl for an index to headstone locations in the Wall of Memory.
Stone is recorded as Grounded because it is fixed in the Wall of Memory.

Last Revision:

2024-04-28

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