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LVIV JEWISH HEADSTONE DATABASE
Stone ID:
LVN436
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:
incised letter
Inscription Character Height, cm:
Name Original:
פייגא יוטא
Name English:
Feiga Jutta
Surname Original:
Surname English:
Father Original:
חזקאל
Father English:
Yehezkel
Husband Original:
Husband English:
Gender:
female
Death Date Hebrew:
--
Death Date:
Age:
Birth Date:
Profession:
Primary Symbol:
3-arm candelabrum
Epitaph Original:
… … נפטרה
פ'נ' אשה ישרה
'מרת פייגא יוטא ב'ר
יחזקאל מביסק
'ת'נ'צ'ב'ה
Epitaph English:
died ... ...
here is buried an honest woman
Feiga Jutta daughter of
Yehezkel of Busk
may her soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life
Acrostic Original:
Acrostic English:
Additional Original:
Additional English:
Stone Condition:
although soiled, this stone is intact and in good condition, with traces of blue or black paint in the field of the epitaph
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:
The given name Jutta, derived from Judith, exists in other variants including Jüte, Jotia, Jite, Ita, etc.
Busk is located about 50km northeast of Lviv.

Last Revision:
2025-04-07
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