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LVIV JEWISH HEADSTONE DATABASE
Stone ID:
LVN391
Location:
NewCem
Grounded/Loose:
loose
Intact/Fragment:
intact Group:
Location X/Y:
Location GPS:
49.8509 24.0021
Material:
limestone
Color: grey Dimensions W H D, cm:
Inscription Style:
raised letter
Inscription Character Height, cm:
Name Original:
קיילא
Name English:
Keila
Surname Original:
מילער
Surname English:
Miller
Father Original:
דוב
Father English:
Dov
Husband Original:
Husband English:
Gender:
female
Death Date Hebrew:
24-Tammuz-5647
Death Date:
1887-07-16*
Age:
5
Birth Date:
Profession:
Primary Symbol:
tree(s)
Epitaph Original:
כ'ד' תמוז ש' תרמ'ז
פ'נ' ילדה הנחמדה
בת ה' שני' קיילא
ב'ר' דוב הכהן
'מילער ת'נ'צ'ב'ה
Epitaph English:
24th Tammuz 5]647
here is buried a sweet girl
aged 5 years, Keila
daughter of Dov the Kohen
Miller, may her soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life
Acrostic Original:
Acrostic English:
Additional Original:
Additional English:
Stone Condition:
the stone is intact and in very 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:
49.8341 24.0184
Other Notes:
Last Revision:
2025-04-05
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