Stone ID:

LVN430

Location:

NewCem

Grounded/Loose:

loose

Intact/Fragment:

fragment 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:

וויטל

Name English:

Vitel

Surname Original:

Surname English:

Grunberg

Father Original:

אריה

Father English:

Arieh Ballaban

Husband Original:

Husband English:

Gender:

female

Death Date Hebrew:

1-Sivan-5693

Death Date:

1933-05-26*

Age:

34

Birth Date:

Profession:

Primary Symbol:

tree(s)

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here is buried Vitel daughter of Arieh(?)
died in the new month of Sivan 5693
may her soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life

Acrostic Original:

Acrostic English:

Additional Original:

Tu spoczywa
... ...
WANDA z BALLABANÓW
GRUNBERGOWA
zmarła 26 maja 1933
w 34 r.życia
Cześć jej pamięci!

Additional English:

Here rests ...
... ...
WANDA née BALLABAN
GRUNBERG
died 26 May 1933
at 34 years of age
Honor her memory!

Stone Condition:

the stone appears mostly intact and in good condition; unfortunately the face is partly obscured by vegetation

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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Other Notes:

The given name Vitel is unusual, and may be transliterated as Vittel. The name may be related to the Hebrew name Vite/Vita, the Slavic Vitya, or the Yiddish diminutive Vityele.
The deceased's maiden name Ballaban is more commonly spelled Balaban.

Last Revision:

2025-04-07

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