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Reb Haim/Chaim Hilel Mydlarz

Here lies a man pious and honest, followed the
righteous path and engaged in the Torah all of his days,
God-fearing and kind-hearted, our teacher
and rabbi Haim/Chaim Hilel son of Reb Yehudah Yakov 
of blessed memory died at the age of 73? years on 29 Menachem
Av 5695 [28 August 1935]
May his soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life  
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Reb Haim/Chaim ...
Written inside the engraved book – The book of Psalms.
Reb ZevYehudah [Judah] Rapaport.
Her lies a man humble in his deeds, God fearing, willing to obey God’s commandments and sheltered with
the righteous,  surely he is my husband and our beloved father  
Reb ZevYehudah son of Reb Mordechai Shelomo
died on Tzom Gedaliah [Fast of Gedaliah – observed on 3 Tishrei, the day after the second day of Rosh Hashanah] 5698  [8 September 1937]
May his soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life  
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Written inside ...
Reb Szlama [Shelomo]Morgensztern.
Here lies the wise and respected young man Szlama
son of Reb Yisrael May his light shine,
grandson of the rabbi from Szadek [Shadek  in Yiddish],
died and was buried with a good name on
6 Menachem
Av 5697 [28 August 1935] at the age of 25 years
May his soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life  
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Reb Szlama [She...
Here lies the important young man from a distinguished family
the honorable rabbi Hanoch Hench son of HaRav Moshe
May his light shine Kochmirak,grandson of HaRav Yehudah Leib
of blessed memory and HaRav  Haim Pinchas HaLevi,
died with a good name on the first day of the holiday of Shavuot 5697 [6 Sivan – Sunday 16 May 1937] 
 May his soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life  
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Here lies the i...
The young man Fishel Frumer.
Woe to the crisis that happened to us, streams
of water will run from our eyes, our delight
was removed from us, our joy was taken from us,
a charming young man, the desire of our hearts,
surely he is the young man who followed God’s path,
crowned with manners and good qualities, the honorable
Efraim Fishel son of Reb Yisrael, grandson of the holy rabbi
Rabbi Fishel from Stryków [Strikov in Yiddish]
died at the age of 21 years on the first intermediate day of Passover
5697 [17 Nisan - 29 March 1937] 
May his soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life  
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The young man F...
Here lies Reb Dawid Poznański from Piotrków.

Heavy mourning. Streams of water run from our eyes for
the size of the crisis, our father, the most beloved man, upright and honest, our glory was lifted the crown was removed from our heads, followed God’s path, engaged in God’s Torah, from a prominent ancestry, the Hasid
our teacher and rabbi Dawid of blessed memory, son of the
Hasid our teacher and rabbi Abram Yakov of blessed memory, grandson of the great rabbi our teacher and rabbi
Eliezer May the memory of the righteous be of a blessing 
Pateczenwer
father of the genius, the master of the Torah, the author of 
the book “Sefer Brit Avraham”  May the memory of the righteous be of a blessing died on Friday on the eve of the Holy Sabbath, the seventh day of Passover 569? ….
[the remainder is being obstructed by grass] 
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Here lies Reb D...
Reb AsherYosef [Josef] Richter. 
Here lies a man pious
 and honest, followed the righteous path,
engaged in the Torah all of his days, God-fearing and kind-hearted, our teacher AsherYosef son of Reb Yehoshua HaCohen of blessed memory, grandson of the chief rabbi Yosef from the
holy community of Lutomiersk,
died at the age of 71 years on 10 Adar 5696 [4 March 1936]
May his soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life  
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Reb AsherYosef ...
Reb Yeshaya Menachem Glatman.
Here lies a man pious and God-fearing, followed
the righteous path and set times for the Torah, 
Yeshaya Menachem son of Reb Haim Issachar 
of blessed memory died at the age of 62 years 
on 5 Kislev 5698 [9 November 1937]
May his soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life  
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Reb Yeshaya Men...
The young man Mendel Pawil Wawidsławski.
Here lies a young man who threw the whole world 
behind his back, took on himself the kingdom of heaven   
and lived most of his youth with the Tzadik (righteous) from Ger [Gur]*
May he lives long and happily Amen.
The young man Menachem Sheraga son of Yekutiel Yehudah  
May his light shine, was accepted to the heavens on the 25th year of his life,
on the third day of Mar Heshvan 5697 
 [19 October 1936]
May his soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life.  
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 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ger_(Hasidic_dynasty)
The young man M...
Yakov [Jacob] Dawid [David]  ?
Here lies a man upright and honest, respected
and loved by people, negotiated with trust,
sought righteousness and benevolence all of
his days, our teacher and rabbi  
Yakov Dawid son of Naftali Meir of blessed memory
died 19 Elul 5696
at the age of 50 years [7 August 1936]

May his soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life  
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Yakov [Jacob] D...

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The young man Shalom Yehudah Traube. 
A rose, a lovely son was plucked and left, his parents
The young man S...
An acrostic poem spelling the name of the deceased Yosef son of Yakov
of blessed memory.
 
 Our eyes run down with water, we cry non-stop for our brother, his
years ended at the prime of his youth, the faces of those who know him
are full of sadness, Yosef, a blossoming son to his parents, 
pleasant to his relatives and lovely to his friends, God-fearing and kind-hearted, 
engaged in the Torah and studied it, received his sufferings and his hardships with love,
was only rewarded for twenty nine years, his memory will rise before God
to bind his soul for eternity.
Here lies the young man, the beloved pious ? our teacher and rabbi  
Yosef son of Yakov, grandson of the Rabbi from Bełchatów  
died with a good name on 29 Shevat 569?
 
May his soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life  
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An acrostic poe...
The young man Yehoshua Meir Fridenson.
Yehoshua is not here, who will console us, his father will 
mourn and cry bitterly for him, his friends will lament him, they will praise
and glorify him. Here lies the young man distinguished in the
Torah and in piety, the honorable teacher Yehoshua Meir 
May his soul rest in heaven, the only son to his
father, our teacher and rabbi Abram [Avraham] 
May his light shine, son of the genius rabbi our master Shmelki
of blessed memory Frydnson, a religious judge and teacher from here, great-grandson of the  
supreme holy our teacher Eliezer Oyerbakh May his merits protect us, the author of the book "Sefer Migdenot Eliezer",
and to the great holy rabbi our teacher Elazar Rokeah from Amsterdam the author of “Maaśeh Rokeah”
an ancestor of the holy Rashi [Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki ] May his merits protect us,
died and buried on Tuesday 27 Nisan 5695
[30 April 1935] at the
23rd year to the days of his life.
May his soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life  
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The young man Y...
The young man Moshe Icek Ajzik Man. 
 Oh! Moshe rose to the heavens, he was taken from us at the prime of his days,
attended the righteous and the pious, his soul always desired to study God’s Torah,  
 rose swiftly as an eagle to work for the holy in the mornings, his hands
performed charitable acts, his pure soul left him at the age of 17 years,
blessed the holy name during his last moment, son of Reb Shimon Zev       
May his light shine, died with a good name on 21 Tevet 5695 
[27 December 1934]
May his soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life  
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The young man M...