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Category: Translation - Tombstone
Approval Date: 7/22/2026 5:29 PM
Family Surname: Orzech
Country: Poland

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I want to know what the headstone says and any relevant information about it.

Response

7/23/2026 6:42 PM

This is a double stone; two women are buried here.

The name of the woman on the right appears to have been GITTEL; the name of the woman on the left may have been BAHSHEH. (Note that these might have been the second part of double names).

The names of both fathers seem to have been Yosef. It might be that these women were sisters, but the name Yosef is followed by another name; on the right it may be Avigdor, and on the left it might be Akivah.

The right stone has the family name of what looks like Levinger; the family name on the left seems to have begun with Fish____; perhaps Fishman?

The writing on the stone is too eroded to be absolutely sure of any of the above. It MIGHT be that the names after Yosef were the names of husbands, and not the second part of the father's names. This could possibly also explain the different last names.

One guess (and this is ONLY a guess): these women were widowed sisters, whose husbands had been buried elsewhere for some reason.

The date of death of the left may be the 10th of Elul, 5663, although I am not sure of the 'sixty' part. If that date is correct, it corresponds to September 1st/2nd 1903. The year of death on the right might be 5677 (around 1917).

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