Stone ID:

LVN175

Location:

NewCem

Grounded/Loose:

loose

Intact/Fragment:

intact Group:

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Material:

sandstone

Color: grey Dimensions W H D, cm:

Inscription Style:

incised letter

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Name Original:

גיטל לאה

Name English:

Gitl Leah

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Father Original:

משולם

Father English:

Meshulam

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Gender:

female

Death Date Hebrew:

1-Sivan-5685

Death Date:

1925-05-25*

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Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here is buried a woman young in years
Gitl Leah daughter of Meshulam
died in the new month of Iyar [5]685
may her soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life

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Stone Condition:

the headstone is nearly intact with all lines of the epitaph preserved, but so worn that the text is only partially legible

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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