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Jewish Cemeteries - Białystok - oldest - pre 1945
The cemetery area shortly after WW II
The cemetery ar...
The cemetery area shortly after WW II
The cemetery ar...
The last remaining grave:  "A [mod]est(?), God-fearing woman, the married Chava daughter of our teacher Ari Leib.  She died 13th Adar 5622 as the abbreviated era.  May her soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life."

Translated by Heidi M. Szpek, Ph.D. (szpekh@cwu.edu)
The last remain...
The last remaining grave: "A [mod]est(?), God-fearing woman, the married Chava daughter of our teacher Ari Leib.  She died 13th Adar 5622 as the abbreviated era.  May her soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life."

Translated by Heidi M. Szpek, Ph.D. (szpekh@cwu.edu)
The last remain...
Shortly after war
Shortly after w...

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Mausoleum of the Sage, Rabbi Lippele, in the "old" cemetery (center). On the right is the grave of Rabbi Elikum Getzel on the left that of the Sage, Rabbi Klonimus Kalman Hakohen
Mausoleum of th...
“A heap of witness:
The angels and the mortals
seized the Holy Ark.
The angels glorified the mortals
and the Holy Ark was returned.
Behold, it is he, the learned rabbi, the Tzadik, the off spring of worthy men,
our teacher Binyamin
among the gaon of Avraham Tsvi
Eizenstadt.
In the next world, the gates of repentance, a Tsadik of blessed memory.
He ministered in holiness (for) 52 years; he was the leader of the beit din of Otian
and the burden of Binyamin was great.
He was summoned into the dwelling up above [unclear].
On Monday, 13th Shevat year 5680.
May his soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life.”
“A heap o...
“A heap of witness:
The angels and the mortals
seized the Holy Ark.
The angels glorified the mortals
and the Holy Ark was returned.
Behold, it is he, the learned rabbi, the Tzadik, the off spring of worthy men,
our teacher Binyamin
among the gaon of Avraham Tsvi
Eizenstadt Ajzensztadt Aizensztadt
In the next world, the gates of repentance, a Tsadik of blessed memory.
He ministered in holiness (for) 52 years; he was the leader of the beit din of Otian
and the burden of Binyamin was great.
He was summoned into the dwelling up above [unclear].
On Monday, 13th Shevat year 5680.
May his soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life.”
“A heap o...
“A heap of witness:
The angels and the mortals
seized the Holy Ark.
The angels glorified the mortals
and the Holy Ark was returned.
Behold, it is he, the learned rabbi, the Tzadik, the off spring of worthy men,
our teacher Binyamin
among the gaon of Avraham Tsvi
Eizenstadt Ajzensztadt Aizensztadt
In the next world, the gates of repentance, a Tsadik of blessed memory.
He ministered in holiness (for) 52 years; he was the leader of the beit din of Otian
and the burden of Binyamin was great.
He was summoned into the dwelling up above [unclear].
On Monday, 13th Shevat year 5680.
May his soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life.”
“A heap o...
“A heap of witness:
The angels and the mortals
seized the Holy Ark.
The angels glorified the mortals
and the Holy Ark was returned.
Behold, it is he, the learned rabbi, the Tzadik, the off spring of worthy men,
our teacher Binyamin
among the gaon of Avraham Tsvi
Eizenstadt Ajzensztadt Aizensztadt
In the next world, the gates of repentance, a Tsadik of blessed memory.
He ministered in holiness (for) 52 years; he was the leader of the beit din of Otian
and the burden of Binyamin was great.
He was summoned into the dwelling up above [unclear].
On Monday, 13th Shevat year 5680.
May his soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life.”
“A heap o...
"Ohel of the esteemed Rabbi [gaon] R. Elhanan Tsvi/Cwi HaCohen of blessed memory."

Zabludow?
"Ohel of the es...
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