Stone ID:

LVN431

Location:

NewCem

Grounded/Loose:

loose

Intact/Fragment:

fragment Group: 431

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Material:

sandstone

Color: pink Dimensions W H D, cm:

Inscription Style:

incised letter

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Name Original:

יעקב

Name English:

Yaakov

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Father Original:

שלמה אלימלך

Father English:

Shlomo Elimelech

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Gender:

male

Death Date Hebrew:

-Adar-5690/5680

Death Date:

1930/1920

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Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here is buried Yaakov son of
Shlomo Elimelech
died ... Adar 5690 (5680?)

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Stone Condition:

this stone survives only in two badly-broken, irregular fragments excavated together in the former prison yard; parts of the epitaph have been lost

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:

2025-04-07

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