Stone ID:

LVN024

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:

משה צבי

Name English:

Moshe Tzvi

Surname Original:

Zelnik?

Surname English:

Father Original:

שמעון יעקב

Father English:

Shimon Yaakov

Husband Original:

Husband English:

Gender:

male

Death Date Hebrew:

15-Shevat-5685

Death Date:

1925-02-09

Age:

Birth Date:

1895-12-22

Profession:

Primary Symbol:

blessing hands (Kohen)

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here is buried the revered Avrech, who was thwarted
halfway through his days, our teacher Moshe Tzvi
son of Shimon Yaakov the Kohen, may his candle burn
died on the 15th of Shevat [5]685
may his soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life

Acrostic Original:

Acrostic English:

Additional Original:

[HIER RUCHT]
HERMAN ZELNIK(?)
[geb.] 22.XII.1895? [gest.] 9.II.
1925

Additional English:

[HERE RESTS]
HERMAN ZELNIK(?)
[born] 22 December 1895? [died] 09 February
1925

Stone Condition:

very good

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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Last Revision:

2025-01-15

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