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Category: Translation - Tombstone
Approval Date: 1/22/2023 11:49 AM
Family Surname:
Country: Lithuania

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These are two more photographs I found among the papers of my cousin, a Holocaust survivor who died in 2019. He lived in Kovno and Gargzdai, Lithuania, during the Holocaust and later immigrated to New York. He visited Lithuania in the 1990s when the photographs were taken.

Can anyone translate these tombstones?

I'm thinking my cousin took the photographs because the tombstones were for a member of his father's family (Birman) or his mother's (Olschwanger).

Thank you.

Response

1/22/2023 1:02 PM

Left side:

Here lies

our dear mother, Mrs.

FAYGEH Ment

daughter of Reb Meir

She passed away 8 Marcheshvan

5698

May her soul be bound up in the bond of life.
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The name that I am reading as "Ment" is presumably the last name, and not part of her personal name (the 'font' is slightly smaller). Note that there are no vowels, although the 'e' is probably correct, so the name might also be something like "Menat".

'Reb' is an honorific; it does not mean rabbi. Her father's name is pronounced MAY-EER.

The month of Marcheshvan is also known by the shorter name of Cheshvan. The 8th of Marcheshvan 5698 began at sunset on October 12th, 1937, and ended at sunset on the 13th.
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Right side:

Here lies

our dear mother,

the flawless and honest

Mrs. ESTHER CHAYAH

Falk

[The next line, which has her father's name, is bleached out, but it appears to say: the daughter of Reb David the Cohen]

She passed away 12 Tevet

5693

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Again, 'Reb' is an honorific. Her father was not a rabbi. He was, however, a Cohen, a member of the priestly tribe that began with Aaron, Moses' brother, and is passed from father to son.

The 12th of Tevet, 5693, began at sunset on January 9th, 1933, and ended at sunset on the 10th.

Again, the bottom might contain the abbreviation for "May her soul be bound up in the bond of life", although this is not visible.

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