Stone ID:

LVN295

Location:

NewCem

Grounded/Loose:

loose

Intact/Fragment:

fragment Group: 273

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Material:

sandstone

Color: pink Dimensions W H D, cm:

Inscription Style:

incised letter

Inscription Character Height, cm:

Name Original:

אליקים געציל

Name English:

Eliakim Getzel

Surname Original:

איינשענק

Surname English:

Einschenk

Father Original:

אליעזר ליבער

Father English:

Eliezer Lieber

Husband Original:

Husband English:

Gender:

male

Death Date Hebrew:

24-Nisan-5691

Death Date:

1931-04-12

Age:

1931-04-12

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Profession:

Primary Symbol:

Star(s) of David

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here is buried an honest man
Eliakim Getzel, son of
Eliezer Lieber Einschenk
died on the 24th of Nisan [5]691

Acrostic Original:

Acrostic English:

Additional Original:

Getzel Einschenk
zm. 12.IV.1931 w 60.r.życia

Additional English:

Getzel Einschenk
died 12 April 1931 at 60 years of age

Stone Condition:

this fragment is the bottom part of a headstone, in good condition; see the Other Notes section below for information about the top part

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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Other Notes:

Two fragments from the same stone were documented in different locations of the collection at the site of the former prison on vul. Lontshoho. This fragment is the bottom part, with the names and death date of the deceased in Polish. The top part, with the name and death date in Hebrew, is recorded in stone ID LVN273. Based on the brevity of the Hebrew text on the top fragment, and the mismatched break lines on the top and bottom fragments, it appears there should be a middle fragment, currently missing.

Last Revision:

2025-03-20

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