Stone ID:

LVN398

Location:

NewCem

Grounded/Loose:

loose

Intact/Fragment:

intact Group:

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Material:

sandstone

Color: pink Dimensions W H D, cm:

Inscription Style:

incised letter

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Name Original:

צבי אליעזר

Name English:

Tzvi Eliezer

Surname Original:

קרעבס

Surname English:

Krebs

Father Original:

אברהם יעקב

Father English:

Avraham Yaakov

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Gender:

male

Death Date Hebrew:

19-Cheshvan-5698

Death Date:

1937-10-24

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Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here is buried
Tzvi Eliezer Krebs
son of Avraham Yaakov
a man of honor and integrity, he walked in perfection
from the Torah ... ...
...gave to orphans
died 19th Cheshvan [5]698
may his soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life

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Additional Original:

Eliasz Herman Krebs
zm. 24.X.1937

Additional English:

Eliasz Herman Krebs
died 24 October 1937

Stone Condition:

the stone is virtually intact, with slight damage and the epitaph is mostly 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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