LVIV JEWISH HEADSTONE DATABASE
Stone ID:
LVN386
Location:
Grounded/Loose:
loose
Intact/Fragment:
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Material:
limestone
Color: grey Dimensions W H D, cm:
Inscription Style:
incised letter
Inscription Character Height, cm:
Name Original:
פייגא
Name English:
Feiga
Surname Original:
קלינג
Surname English:
Kling
Father Original:
דוד
Father English:
David
Husband Original:
Husband English:
Gender:
female
Death Date Hebrew:
4-Tammuz-5675
Death Date:
1915-06-16*
Age:
Birth Date:
Profession:
Primary Symbol:
3-arm candelabrum
Epitaph Original:
ד' תמוז תרע'ה
פ'נ' אשה רכה בשנים
(?)מ' פייגא קלינג ב'ר' דוד
מגאיע הסמיך לסט.א
'ת'נ'צ'ב'ה
פ'נ' אשה רכה בשנים
(?)מ' פייגא קלינג ב'ר' דוד
מגאיע הסמיך לסט.א
'ת'נ'צ'ב'ה
Epitaph English:
4 Tammuz [5]675
here is buried a woman young in years
Feiga Kling daughter of David(?)
... ... ...
may her soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life
here is buried a woman young in years
Feiga Kling daughter of David(?)
... ... ...
may her soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life
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Stone Condition:
the stone is broken but preserving the entire epitaph; unfortunately the stone face is worn and difficult to read in places
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.
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.
ID Tag Poistion:
Recovery Date:
2025-07
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Last Revision:
2025-04-05
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