Stone ID:

LVN466

Location:

NewCem

Grounded/Loose:

loose

Intact/Fragment:

intact 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:

הודיס

Name English:

Hudes

Surname Original:

Surname English:

Ballaban

Father Original:

ארי'

Father English:

Arieh

Husband Original:

Husband English:

Gender:

female

Death Date Hebrew:

1-Elul-5689

Death Date:

1929-09-05*

Age:

Birth Date:

Profession:

Primary Symbol:

tree(s)

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here is buried Hudes daughter of Arieh
died on the new moon of Elul [5]689
may her soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life

Acrostic Original:

Acrostic English:

Additional Original:

Tu spoczywa
nasza szlachetna, kochana
i droga - tak strasznie
we wiośnie nam zgasła
córka i siostra.
ADELA
BALLABANÓWNA
zmarła 5 września 1929
Spij spokojnie.

Additional English:

Here rests
our noble, beloved
and dear - so terribly
cut down in her prime –
daughter and sister
ADELA
BALLABANÓWNA
died on 5 September 1929
Sleep peacefully

Stone Condition:

the stone is intact and in very good condition

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 Hudes is derived from the Hebrew Yehudit (Judith).
The surname Ballaban(ówna) of the deceased is more commonly spelled Balaban.

Last Revision:

2025-04-09

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