Stone ID:

LVN067

Location:

NewCem

Grounded/Loose:

loose

Intact/Fragment:

intact 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:

חיה רבקה

Name English:

Chaya Rivka

Surname Original:

Surname English:

Kolton

Father Original:

חיים

Father English:

Chaim

Husband Original:

Husband English:

Gender:

female

Death Date Hebrew:

24-Elul-5700

Death Date:

1940-09-27*

Age:

62

Birth Date:

Profession:

Primary Symbol:

5-arm candelabrum

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here is buried a chaste and dear woman
Chaya Rivka daughter of Chaim
died 24 Elul [5]700
may her soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life

Acrostic Original:

Acrostic English:

Additional Original:

CHAJE RYFKE KOLTON
[zm.] 26.IX.1940 w 62 r. życia

Additional English:

CHAJE RYFKE KOLTON
[died] 26 November 1940 at 62 years of life

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:

2025-01-18

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