Pinkas Natkes tombstone, Lviv

Recent roadworks in Lviv revealed a Jewish tombstone hidden beneath one of the streets. The stone “belonged” to Pinkas Natkes son of Yosef Tsvi. As Pinkas died on 7th of February 1927, most probably he was buried on the new Jewish cemetery, Yanivsky.

The workers who found the tombstone didn’t know what to do with it, so they just brought it to the Jakub Glanzer Synagogue .

During 1950′ Soviet authorities often re-used tombstones (Jewish and German) for pavement. Such was the fate of the cemeteries in Lviv, Dobromyl and other towns in Galicia.