Stone ID:

LVN289

Location:

NewCem

Grounded/Loose:

loose

Intact/Fragment:

intact Group:

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Material:

sandstone

Color: pink Dimensions W H D, cm:

Inscription Style:

incised letter

Inscription Character Height, cm:

Name Original:

סנדר אליהו

Name English:

Sender Eliyahu

Surname Original:

Surname English:

Father Original:

יהיאל מיכל

Father English:

Yechiel Michael

Husband Original:

Husband English:

Gender:

male

Death Date Hebrew:

23-Sivan-5688

Death Date:

1928-06-11

Age:

Birth Date:

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Primary Symbol:

Star(s) of David

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here is buried a man of integrity and honor
... ...Sender(?) Eliyahu
... son of Yechiel Michael, blessed be his memory
died on the 23rd of Sivan [5]688
may his soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life

Acrostic Original:

Acrostic English:

Additional Original:

ELIASZ MASS
zm. 11.VI.1928

Additional English:

ELIASZ MASS
died 11 April 1928

Stone Condition:

the stone is badly broken but most of the missing face area is outside of the epitaph

Conservation:

This headstone and hundreds of others were excavated in early July 2020 from under the soil surface of an enclosed yard of the Ukrainian National Museum-Memorial of Victims of the Occupation Regimes in Lviv, also called the "Prison on Łącki Street" or in transliterated Ukrainian, simply "Lontsky". It is almost certain that the stones were stolen from the new Jewish cemetery adjacent to the Yanivskyi Cemetery northwest of the Lviv city center during the the German occupation of World War II, and used as paving for the prison yard.

Shortly after the excavation the headstones were photographed on two separate occasions by Sasha Nazar and Oleksandr Papevskiy; together those images added more than 350 new headstones to this database. Five years later and with cooperation of the site's authorities, in June 2025 the headstones were stacked onto pallets and then in July 2025 they were returned to the new Jewish cemetery in Lviv under the direction of Sasha Nazar of the Sholem Aleichem Jewish Cultural Society.

For more information, see the About Lviv page on this website.

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Recovery Date:

2025-07

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Last Revision:

2025-04-28

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