Stone ID:

LVN378

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:

יעקב

Name English:

Yaakov

Surname Original:

גאטטעסמאן

Surname English:

Gottesmann

Father Original:

אשר

Father English:

Asher

Husband Original:

Husband English:

Gender:

male

Death Date Hebrew:

8-Adar-5700

Death Date:

1940-02-17

Age:

Birth Date:

1857-08-25

Profession:

Primary Symbol:

blessing hands (Kohen)

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here is buried a man of integrity and honesty
Yaakov son of Asher the Kohen Gottesmann
born 5 Elul [5]617 and died 8 Adar [5]700
may his soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life

Acrostic Original:

Acrostic English:

Additional Original:

Jakub Gottesmann
ur. [25.VIII] 1857 zm. 17.II.1940

Additional English:

Jakub Gottesmann
born [25 August] 1857 died 17 February 1940

Stone Condition:

the stone is broken and worn, but the epitaph is complete and almost fully legible

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:

2025-04-05

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