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Submitted by Lauri Berlin

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Category: Translation - Tombstone
Approval Date: 3/1/2026 2:16 PM
Family Surname: Broderzon
Country: Belarus
Town: Shklow
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Can someone please translate the Hebrew writing on this tombstone for Sarah and if possible for David?

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3/1/2026 7:58 PM SARAH daughter of Shimon

Shimon [pronounced SHIM-own] is Hebrew for Simon.

[DAVID?] son of Dov Aryeh.

Dov is Hebrew for bear. It is pronounced as in "He DOVE into the water". Some men with Dov as part of their religious name have a secular name of Bernard,
Barry, or similar.

Aryeh [ARE-yay] is Hebrew for lion. Some men with Aryeh as part of their religious name have a secular name of Leo, Leonard, Larry, or similar.

(Note that there are no rules for 'matching' religious and secular names, so his father's secular name might have been completely different).

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