Stone ID:

LVN313

Location:

NewCem

Grounded/Loose:

loose

Intact/Fragment:

fragment Group: 312

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Material:

limestone

Color: grey Dimensions W H D, cm:

Inscription Style:

raised letter

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Name Original:

Yaakov

Name English:

Surname Original:

Surname English:

Deitsch

Father Original:

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Gender:

male

Death Date Hebrew:

--

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Additional Original:

JAKOB DEITSCH

Additional English:

JAKOB DEITSCH

Stone Condition:

the upper part of the stone is broken into two fragments, both preserved, and the name of the deceased in Latin letters is intact across the fragments; no Hebrew epitaph is visible on the fragments, and it may be 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 two surviving fragments of a single stone found separately when excavated at the former prison yard. The epitaph information documented here is for both fragments together. To review each fragment individually, see the stone group ID 312.

Last Revision:

2025-03-23

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