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Category: Translation - Tombstone
Approval Date: 2/18/2026 2:35 PM
Family Surname: Kreisler, Lichtblau
Country: Austria
Town: Vienna
Date of Image: 1862

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I would like help with translating the Hebrew in this document, which is an old transcription made from a headstone in the Vienna Wahringer cemetery. Anna Lichtblau Kreisler was born in 1818 in Senica, Slovakia, and died in Vienna in February 1862.

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2/18/2026 4:29 PM

Here is buried
A dear woman Genendel
Wife of Rabbi Zelig Kreisler from Semnitz
Died on Thursday, 6 Adar and buried on Sunday in the year 5622
May her soul be bound up in the bond of life (acronym)

Semnitz is now Senica
For name Genendel see:
https://hebrewnamer.com/names/gnendel/

2/18/2026 4:34 PM

As this is the grave of a woman, it is strange to see that certain words that were correctly in the feminine, have letters crossed out, with the result that they are now in the masculine.
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Here is interred

the dear woman Gendel

wife of Zelig Kreissler of Semnitz [?]

She passed away on Thursday, the 6th of Adar I and was buried on Sunday

of the year 5622

May her soul be bound up in the bond of life.
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She passed away in the month of Adar I; in a Jewish leap year, the standard 12th month, Adar, is replaced by two months: Adar I and Adar II.

The 6th day of Adar I, 5622, corresponds to February 5th/6th, 1862.

2/18/2026 5:13 PM

I apologize; the other helper is correct: the name is

GENENDEL.

2/19/2026 12:48 AM

On the right, in gray, first script lines say: "what appears on the stone" "Am Stein" in German.

The script then corrects the פ"ט to פ"נ both are abbreviations meaning "Here lies" thought the latter is literally "Here was buried".

The next correction refers to the title of her husband and say "Bloss 'ה" "Bloss" means "only". That letter stands for Mr.

One person transcribed, a second person corrected it, based on what they (presumably) saw on the gravestone.

2/19/2026 3:37 PM

Not that it's a crucial distinction, but this looks to me not so much like a transcription of the engraving as a PROOF of the draft inscription. An editor has made changes in purple pencil, adjusting line breaks, changing some letters, etc. Note the stylized letter "d" to the left of the fifth line of text, a classic German proofreading mark (= delineatur, Latin for "delete it!") for characters marked in that line. "Am Stein" (actually it says 'Am Stein ist') likely indicates an element that was already engraved and thus can no longer be altered (one of the the standard abbreviations for "here lies" may well have been pre-cut into every stone in the shop!).

2/19/2026 4:16 PM

I really must brush up on my Latin! The "d" stands for deleatur.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dele

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