Stone ID:

LVN462

Location:

NewCem

Grounded/Loose:

loose

Intact/Fragment:

fragment Group: 462

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Material:

sandstone

Color: grey Dimensions W H D, cm:

Inscription Style:

incised letter

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Name Original:

רבקה דאבריש

Name English:

Rivka Dobrisch

Surname Original:

ליעבערגאלל

Surname English:

Liebergall

Father Original:

זאב

Father English:

Ze'ev

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Gender:

female

Death Date Hebrew:

9-Nisan-5701

Death Date:

1941-04-06*

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Primary Symbol:

5-arm candelabrum

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here is buried
a woman of virtue and integrity
active in charity and ... a lady
Rivka Dobrisch
Liebergall
daughter of Ze'ev, blessed be his memory
died 9th Nisan [5]701
may her soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life

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Stone Condition:

this stone was found broken into four pieces after excavation from the former prison yard; although broken, most of the stone has survived; the epitaph is complete and spans three of the pieces; the full epitaph is given on the ID page of each of the pieces

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:

2025-04-09

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