Stone ID:

LVN033

Location:

NewCem

Grounded/Loose:

loose

Intact/Fragment:

fragment Group:

Location X/Y:

Location GPS:

Material:

sandstone

Color: pink Dimensions W H D, cm:

Inscription Style:

incised letter

Inscription Character Height, cm:

Name Original:

אריה ליב

Name English:

Arieh Leib

Surname Original:

Surname English:

Grun

Father Original:

ישראל

Father English:

Yisrael

Husband Original:

Husband English:

Gender:

male

Death Date Hebrew:

16-Shevat-5696

Death Date:

1936-02-09

Age:

Birth Date:

1889-06-08

Profession:

Primary Symbol:

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here is buried [Arieh Leib, son of Mr. Yi]srael
[died 16th Shevat [5]696]

Acrostic Original:

Acrostic English:

Additional Original:

[TU SP]OCZYWA
LEON GRUN
UR. 8.VI.1889
ZM. 9.II.1936
SPOKÓJ JEGO [DUSZY!]

Additional English:

[HERE R]ESTS
LEON GRUN
BORN 8 JUNE 1889
DIED 9 FEBRUARY 1936
PEACE TO HIS SOUL!

Stone Condition:

only a fragment of this stone survives; nearly all of the Hebrew epitaph is lost

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

Recovery GPS:

Other Notes:

the epitaph text and Hebrew names are speculative based on an attempt to reconstruct the letter fragments

Last Revision:

2025-01-16

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