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Reb Berl Wajs/Weiss from Ozorków.
Reb Berl Wajs/W...
Woe for those who are gone and cannot be replaced! 

Reb Eliyahu Joel [Yoel] son of Reb Yehoshua Natan of blessed memory
Garfinkel, Born in Szczuczyn [Shtutzin in Yiddish].
Died on the first day of the month of Av in the year of troubles = 5696
[20 July 1936]
[The letters of the Jewish year תרצו were rearranged to create the word troubles]. 
The epitaph is an acrostic poem spelling the name of the deceased Eliyahu Joel.
Where is the Hassid, where is the humble man, his sons will mourn his death,  
was upright and honest all of his days, was charitable to his people,
studied the Torah day and night, traded with trust, the community mourn
him heavily, rose like a lion to worship God. May his soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life. Died at the age of 61 years
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Woe for those w...
Bedlinski Berlinski Wolf
Bedlinski Berli...
Here lies a man upright and pious, engaged
in good deeds all of his days, sought righteousness
and benevolence and feared God, had a kind heart and a generous
soul,Yitzchak [Icek] Majer [Meir] son of Reb Shelomo
Eliezer of blessed memory
from Tomaszów, 
died at the age of 57 years
on the first day of Hanukkah 5696 [25 Kislev – 21 December 1935]
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Here lies a man...
Reb Majer[Meir]Wolman.
[The epitaph is in Yiddish]
Here lies our beloved father Reb Majer  
son of Reb Moshe Yosef [Josef]
died at the age of 72 years
on the 25th day of Shevat in the year 1935=5695 [9 January 1935]
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Reb Majer[Meir]...
Passers-by, rise in lamentation and weeping because a 
great disaster fell on us with the death of
our son the lovely young man, educated and God-fearing,
the honorable teacher Yisrael [Izrael]Yitschak [Icek]
son of Elimelch May his light shine,
died at the age of 17 years on
4 Tishrei 5695 or 5698 
May his soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life  
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Passers-by, ris...
Abram Josef Zyskind. 
Here lies a young man,God-fearing with excellent   
manners, crowned with honest qualities, all who know him cry for him
because he was plucked at his prime at the age of 19,
died on the fifteenth of Shevat in the year 5695
[19 January 1935], the honorable teacher 
Abram Josef [Yosef] son of our teacher and rabbi
Binyamin Yitzchak [Icek] HaLevi.
May his soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life.  
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Abram Josef Zys...
Jankiel [Yehiel] Tzvi Szulewicz/Szolewicz.
Here lies the lovely boy Jankiel Tzvi 
son of Reb Yitzchak [Icek] May his light shine,
died at the age of two and a half years on the
eve of the month of Iyar 5696
[30 Nisan – 22 April 1936]

May his soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life.  
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Jankiel [Yehiel...
Reb Machman   
Laufer.
Here lies a pious man who followed
the righteous path, God-fearing and
kind-hearted, the respected our teacher
and rabbi Nachman son of Reb Moshe Yehudah 
HaCohen died at the age of 67 years
on 23 Second Adar 5695 [28 March 1935]
 May his soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life.  
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Reb Machman ...
Reb Dawid Mendel Wajsenberg.     
Here lies an old loyal man with a beloved
soul, studied the Torah and obeyed its commandments,
attached himself to wise students and sheltered with
the righteous, a Warka Hasid (a Hasidic dynasty in Poland
fonded by R. Isaac (Kalish) of Warka).
Surely he is the respected Hasid ,our teacher and rabbi 
Dawid Mendel son of Reb Yona Yehudah of blessed memory from 
Pułtusk, died at the age of 79 years
on the second day of Passover 5698 [16 Nisan – 17 April 1938]  
 May his soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life.  
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Reb Dawid Mende...
Reb Yodel Wajngarten.
Woe for those who are gone and cannot be replaced! 

The head of our family the crown of our heads,
raised his eyes to the heavens day and night without
a break, the loss that happened to us and to all
who know him, was of good mind to the day of his
death, Oh! Our mourning is heavy, engaged in God’s
work all of his days, served in the holy for his rabbis
and the righteous of the world, died old and full
of days at the age of one and a hundred [101] years, the old Hasid our teacher
and rabbi Yehudah [Yodel]son of Reb Shelomo of blessed memory,
died on the night of the holy Sabbath on the first day of
the month of Iyar in the year 5695 [4 May 1935]
May his soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life.  
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Reb Yodel Wajng...
Reb Yerachmiel Mentlik.
Here lies an old man upright and honest,
pious and charitable, engaged in the Torah all
of his days, Yerachmiel, son of Reb Abram [Avraham]
Yosef [Josef] of blessed memory, 
died at the age of 74 years
on ? ?  5698 [1937/38 ]
 May his soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life.  
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Reb Yerachmiel ...
Reb Shemuel Meir Berner. 
The heavens listen to our crisis because
the head of our family was taken, educated
and helped the poor, a pious God-fearing man, 
labored to support those who stumble, sought
righteousness and benevolence, our teacher
and rabbi Shemuel Meir son of Reb Yehudah
Naftali of blessed memory, 
died at the age of 60 years
on 21 Shevat  5698 [23 January 1938]
 May his soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life.  
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Reb Shemuel Mei...
Yehoshua [Szyja] Wiezba, his soul rests in the hidden treasure houses of heaven.
 Streams of water run from our eyes for the death of the head of
our family, the glory of our family the light of our eyes, we are orphans
our father is no longer among us. Woe! We will cry for the passion of
our souls, our magnificent light was taken from us, his name and
his memory is sealed in our hearts until the arrival of the Messiah, 
he is our teacher and rabbi Yehoshua son of Reb ? Binem
HaLevi of blessed memory, died with a good name at the age of
45 years [the date is unreadable] May his soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life.  
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Yehoshua [Szyja...
Reb Shelomo [Szlama] Ordynans.
Here lies a man with beloved soul, loved for
his manners, feared God since his youth and
obeyed his commandment, was wise to each
needy and supported him with his donation, 
served God with trust, followed the righteous path and sheltered with the
righteous, he is our father a God-fearing man, the pious Reb Shelomo Menachem son of
our teacher and rabbi Rabbi Aharon of blessed memory,
died with a good name at the age of 61 years on 5 Mar Heshvan 5695
[14 October 1934]
May his soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life.  
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Reb Shelomo [Sz...