Stone ID:

LVN145

Location:

NewCem

Grounded/Loose:

loose

Intact/Fragment:

fragment Group: 142

Location X/Y:

Location GPS:

Material:

sandstone

Color: pink Dimensions W H D, cm:

Inscription Style:

incised letter

Inscription Character Height, cm:

Name Original:

אסתר

Name English:

Esther

Surname Original:

בארטפעלד

Surname English:

Bartfeld

Father Original:

אפרים פישל

Father English:

Ephraim Fishel

Husband Original:

Husband English:

Gender:

female

Death Date Hebrew:

14-Shevat-5692

Death Date:

1932-01-22*

Age:

Birth Date:

Profession:

Primary Symbol:

Star(s) of David

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

died on the 14th of Shevat [5]692
here is buried the girl Esther daughter of
Ephraim Fishel Bartfeld(?)
may her soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life

Acrostic Original:

Acrostic English:

Additional Original:

ERNESTYNA BARTFELD(?)

Additional English:

ERNESTYNA BARTFELD(?)

Stone Condition:

this stone was intact but cracked when recovered; it broke into four large fragments during transport to the cemetery; the four fragments are recorded here separately with the complete surviving inscription in case the fragments become separated in the future

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:

2018-06

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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:

2025-02-06

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