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Submitted by Ramona Diane Mizne

Information Picture Question
Category: Translation - Tombstone
Approval Date: 9/17/2025 2:10 PM
Family Surname: Breiterman
Country: Poland
Town: Warsaw
Date of Image: 1942
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I believe this to be the gravestone of Fajge {Shif} Breiterman. She was the wife of Moszek Breiterman, mother of Irka Breiterman. All three died in the Shoah.

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9/17/2025 6:01 PM I'm afraid that it is a challenge to read this stone.

I do see the line "I was a [young] girl when my mother left me".

I am not sure whether this is supposed to be the deceased "speaking" about her own mother's death, or whether the stone was put up by the daughter of the deceased, who was young when she died (and presumably could not have composed this complicated Hebrew. Both of these suggestions seem a bit strange to me. Perhaps you know more about the family history?

I do see the name Faige, with her father possibly having had the name Yosef (Joseph).

In any case, I am wondering how someone who died in the Shoah was buried in the Jewish cemetery and had a stone put up, unless they perhaps died in a pogrom or another "incident", and was not killed in a concentration camp.

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