Stone ID:

LVN168

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:

יאנטי

Name English:

Yenta

Surname Original:

Surname English:

Wellerstein

Father Original:

צבי

Father English:

Tzvi

Husband Original:

Husband English:

Gender:

female

Death Date Hebrew:

20-Kislev-5700

Death Date:

1939-12-02

Age:

Birth Date:

Profession:

Primary Symbol:

3-arm candelabrum

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here is buried
a woman chaste and honored
a jewel to her husband ... open to the poor
... ... ... ...
Yenta(?) daughter of Tzvi(?)
died on the 20th(?) of Kislev [5]700
may her soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life

Acrostic Original:

Acrostic English:

Additional Original:

JENTA WELLERSTEIN
zm. 2.XII.1939(?) w … [roku życia]

Additional English:

JENTA WELLERSTEIN
died 2 December 1939(?) at ... [years of life]

Stone Condition:

although mostly intact, the stone is rough and very worn; the epitaph is almost completely eroded

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:

2025-01-23

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