Stone ID:

LVN330

Location:

NewCem

Grounded/Loose:

loose

Intact/Fragment:

intact Group:

Location X/Y:

Location GPS:

Material:

sandstone

Color: pink Dimensions W H D, cm:

Inscription Style:

incised letter

Inscription Character Height, cm:

Name Original:

פינא

Name English:

Pina

Surname Original:

האפפמאנן

Surname English:

Hoffmann

Father Original:

מרדכי

Father English:

Mordechai

Husband Original:

Husband English:

Gender:

female

Death Date Hebrew:

23-Adar-5678

Death Date:

1918-03-07*

Age:

Birth Date:

Profession:

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Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

died 23rd Adar
5678
a girl aged ... years
Pina daughter of Mordechai
Hoffmann
may her soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life

Acrostic Original:

Acrostic English:

Additional Original:

FANI HOFFMAN

Additional English:

FANI HOFFMAN

Stone Condition:

the stone is intact and in good condition apart from some wear at the edges

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:

The reading of the given name Pina is reasonable from the Hebrew characters, but because of the close relationship between P/F in the Hebrew alphabet, and because the nickname in Latin characters is given as Fani, it's possible that the name of the deceased was pronounced with a leading F sound.

Last Revision:

2025-04-26

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