Stone ID:

LVN173

Location:

NewCem

Grounded/Loose:

loose

Intact/Fragment:

fragment Group: 172

Location X/Y:

Location GPS:

Material:

sandstone

Color: pink Dimensions W H D, cm:

Inscription Style:

incised letter

Inscription Character Height, cm:

Name Original:

מילקא

Name English:

Milka

Surname Original:

שרעק

Surname English:

Schreck

Father Original:

יהודה

Father English:

Yehuda

Husband Original:

Husband English:

Gender:

female

Death Date Hebrew:

11-Iyar-5698

Death Date:

1938-05-12

Age:

Birth Date:

Profession:

Primary Symbol:

3-arm candelabrum

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here is buried
an old and chaste lady
Milka Schreck daughter of Yehuda
[died 11th Iyar [5]698]

Acrostic Original:

Acrostic English:

Additional Original:

[MIL]KA REBEKA
SCHRECK
zm. 12.V.1938

Additional English:

[MIL]KA REBEKA
SCHRECK
died 12 May 1938

Stone Condition:

the stone is badly broken and worn, however most of the two main pieces remain and a large portion of the epitaph is readable

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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