Stone ID:

LVN389

Location:

NewCem

Grounded/Loose:

loose

Intact/Fragment:

fragment Group: 389

Location X/Y:

Location GPS:

Material:

sandstone

Color: grey Dimensions W H D, cm:

Inscription Style:

incised letter

Inscription Character Height, cm:

Name Original:

מירל טוד

Name English:

Mirele

Surname Original:

Surname English:

Tod

Father Original:

Father English:

Husband Original:

Husband English:

Gender:

female

Death Date Hebrew:

-Cheshvan-5700

Death Date:

1939

Age:

Birth Date:

Profession:

Primary Symbol:

5-arm candelabrum

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here is buried a woman of honor
chaste and godly
Mirele Tod
... ... ...
...the Kohen
... Cheshvan [5]700
may her soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life

Acrostic Original:

Acrostic English:

Additional Original:

Additional English:

Stone Condition:

only the upper part of this stone survives, in mostly good condition

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.

ID Tag Poistion:

Recovery Date:

2025-07

Recovery GPS:

Other Notes:

Possible alternate given names for the deceased include Mirel, Mirl, Mirela, and some diminutives of Miriam.
This stone and another of very similar carving style were found separately after excavation in the prison yard; they have been paired here as group ID=389 and the epitaphs combined as if one, but it is not certain that the two fragments come from the same stone.

Last Revision:

2025-04-05

Image Gallery: