Stone ID:

LVN302

Location:

NewCem

Grounded/Loose:

loose

Intact/Fragment:

fragment Group: 300

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Material:

sandstone

Color: grey Dimensions W H D, cm:

Inscription Style:

incised letter

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Name Original:

ביילא

Name English:

Beila

Surname Original:

קראהן

Surname English:

Kron

Father Original:

שמואל

Father English:

Shmuel

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Gender:

female

Death Date Hebrew:

4-Tevet-5700

Death Date:

1939-12-16*

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Primary Symbol:

5-arm candelabrum

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here is buried a woman of chastity and honor
Beila Kron, daughter of
Shmuel from the holy community of Rozwadów
died 4th Tevet 5700
may her soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life

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Stone Condition:

the upper part of the stone is broken into three fragments, all preserved, and the epitaph is intact across the fragments; the lower part of the stone, which may have included the name of the deceased in Latin letters, is lost

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:

This is one of three fragments of a single stone found together when excavated at the former prison yard. The epitaph information documented here is for all fragments together. To review each fragment individually, see the stone group ID 300.

Rozvadiv (Rozwadów in Polish) is located about 40km south of Lviv.

Last Revision:

2025-04-28

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