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Category: Translation - Tombstone
Approval Date: 1/25/2026 2:24 PM
Family Surname: KONVATZKY
Country: Canada
Town: Winipeg

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Looking for info about his parents and anything else I can use to trace my grandfather. He is my grandfather's brother

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1/25/2026 2:38 PM

SHMUEL son of Reb Volf of blessed memory

He passed away 8 Elul 5708

May his soul be bound up in the bond of life.
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Shmuel is Hebrew for Samuel.

'Reb' is an honorific; it does not mean rabbi.

Volf is Yiddish for Wolf. If he also had a Hebrew name, it most likely would have been the Hebrew word for wolf: Ze'ev. Even though there are no rules for 'matching' secular and religious names, I have seen secular names such as Wolf, Wolfgang, William, etc. Please note that his secular name might have been something completely different.

There is a slight discrepancy between the religious and secular dates of death. The 8th of Elul (which actually looks more like the 5th, but that would make the discrepancy even greater) began at sunset on September 11th, 1948, and ended at sunset on the 12th. The secular date on the stone is the 13th.

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