Stone ID:

LVN060

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:

נתנאל

Name English:

Nathaniel

Surname Original:

Surname English:

Father Original:

אפרים פישל

Father English:

Ephraim Fischel

Husband Original:

Husband English:

Gender:

male

Death Date Hebrew:

26-Iyar-5697

Death Date:

1937-05-07*

Age:

Birth Date:

Profession:

Primary Symbol:

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

Nathaniel son of Ephraim Fischel
26th Iyar [5]697

Acrostic Original:

Acrostic English:

Additional Original:

Nieubłagana śmierć
zawcześnie do nas się wdarła
I najpiękniejszy kwiat
naszego życia nam wydarła!

Additional English:

Inexorable death
has prematurely broken in upon us
And the most beautiful flower
of our life snatched from us!

Stone Condition:

The stone is broken with only a portion of the epitaph surviving.

Conservation:

This headstone and more than a dozen others were discovered in use as paving and staircase stones in a courtyard at Halytska Square 15 in the Lviv city center in autumn 2017. The stones were recovered by the Sholem Aleichem Jewish Cultural Society of Lviv and the Lviv Volunteer Center and 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 a blog post on the Vanished World website.

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Recovery Date:

2017-11-24

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Other Notes:

Photo(s) by Christian Herrmann, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Last Revision:

2025-01-17

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