Stone ID:

LVN023

Location:

NewCem

Grounded/Loose:

loose

Intact/Fragment:

intact Group:

Location X/Y:

Location GPS:

Material:

sandstone

Color: grey Dimensions W H D, cm:

Inscription Style:

incised letter

Inscription Character Height, cm:

Name Original:

חיים

Name English:

Chaim

Surname Original:

Surname English:

Gertler

Father Original:

שמעון

Father English:

Shimon

Husband Original:

Husband English:

Gender:

male

Death Date Hebrew:

28-Iyar-5700

Death Date:

1940-06-05

Age:

Birth Date:

Profession:

Primary Symbol:

Star(s) of David

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here is buried
a man of integrity and honesty, a man of God
enjoyed the work of his hands, our teacher
Chaim, son of Shimon
died on the 28th of Iyar [5]700
may his soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life

Acrostic Original:

Acrostic English:

Additional Original:

CHAIM GERTLER
zm. 5 czerwca 1940

Additional English:

CHAIM GERTLER
died 05 June 1940

Stone Condition:

the top portion of the stone is broken off but the entire epitaph is preserved and legible

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.

ID Tag Poistion:

Recovery Date:

2018-06

Recovery GPS:

Other Notes:

Last Revision:

2025-01-15

Image Gallery: