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LVIV JEWISH HEADSTONE DATABASE
Stone ID:
LVN072
Location:
NewCem
Grounded/Loose:
loose
Intact/Fragment:
intact Group:
Location X/Y:
Location GPS:
49.8509 24.0021
Material:
sandstone
Color: pink Dimensions W H D, cm:
Inscription Style:
incised letter
Inscription Character Height, cm:
Name Original:
רחל צביה
Name English:
Rachel Tzivia
Surname Original:
Surname English:
Glas
Father Original:
מאיר אריה
Father English:
Meir Arieh
Husband Original:
Husband English:
Gender:
female
Death Date Hebrew:
13-Av-5698
Death Date:
1938-08-10*/1938-08-12
Age:
78
Birth Date:
Profession:
Primary Symbol:
3-arm candelabrum
Epitaph Original:

נפטרה י'ג' אב תרצ'ח
'אשה זקנה וצנועה מ ['פ'נ]
חל צביה ב'ר' מאיר אריה הכהן[ר]
'ת'נ'צ'ב'ה
Epitaph English:
died on the 13th of Av [5]698
here is buried an elderly and chaste lady
Rachel Tzivia, daughter of Meir Arieh the Kohen
may her soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life
Acrostic Original:
Acrostic English:
Additional Original:
RACHELA GLAS
zm. 12.VIII.1938(?) w 78 r. [życia]
Additional English:
RACHELA GLAS
died 12 August 1938(?) at 78 years [of life]
Stone Condition:
the stone is quite worn and rough, but most of the epitaph can still be read
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:
49.8285 24.0034
Other Notes:
Last Revision:
2025-01-18
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