Stone ID:

LVN009

Location:

NewCem

Grounded/Loose:

loose

Intact/Fragment:

intact Group:

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Material:

other

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Inscription Style:

incised letter

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Name Original:

מרדכי צבי

Name English:

Mordechai Tzvi

Surname Original:

Surname English:

Ackerman

Father Original:

שלמה געציל

Father English:

Shlomo Getzil

Husband Original:

Husband English:

Gender:

male

Death Date Hebrew:

10-Sivan-5700

Death Date:

1934-06-16

Age:

64

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Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here is buried a man of integrity and honor
Mordechai Tzvi, son of Shlomo Getzil the Levite
died on the 10th of Sivan [5]700
may his soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life

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Acrostic English:

Additional Original:

MARKUS ACKERMANN
urz. państw.
zm. 16.VI.1940 w 64 r. życia
Cześć Jego Pamięci!

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Stone Condition:

the marble face with epitaph is shattered but mostly intact

Conservation:

This headstone and more than a hundred others were recovered from under the asphalt paving of vul. Hanna Barvinok southwest of the Lviv city center over several days in June 2018, in a volunteer event organized by the Sholem Aleichem Jewish Cultural Society of Lviv and the Lviv Volunteer Center. The stones were then moved to the new Jewish cemetery adjacent to the Yanivskyi Cemetery northwest of the city center, from which they were likely originally stolen during the German occupation of World War II.
For more information, see the About Lviv page on this website and Case Study 13 on the website A Guide to Jewish Cemetery Preservation in Western Ukraine.

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Recovery Date:

2018-06

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Other Notes:

the face of the stone is a thin pink marble sheet engraved with the epitaph; the marble sheet is set into a limestone frame which forms the main body of the headstone

as the son of a Levite, it is possible that the symbol lost in the shattered upper part of the marble face would have been a water pitcher or washing hands

Last Revision:

2025-01-13

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