LEVITES buried in this cemeteries

As there are so few family names in this cemetery, it will be helpful to search for your family if you know they are LEVI.

A LEVI is a descendant of Levi, one of Jacob’s sons, and therefore belonging to the Tribe of Levi, one of the twelve tribes.

This status, passed from father to son since that time, has always been noted, both in the synagogue and during life events like when a boy is circumcised, when he has his Bar Mitzvah and when he gets married.

On gravestones the status of man who is a Levi is often shown as a visual symbol – a pitcher and a bowel, referring to the Levi washing the hands of the Kohen before the Kohen do the Kohen blessing.

But the status is also written down in the text as f.ex. “Bezalel son of Moshe Johel HaLevi”.

For religious purposes, men who are LEVI have a special place in the Jewish community, like the KOHEN.

As far as I know, there are no special religious obligations of a daughter of a Levi, but it must have had some importance, because the women are listed as f.ex. “Sheindel daughter of Neta Yaakov  HaLevi”.

Because we have so few family names, I have added the women too. Perhaps this will help find family connections and enable us to add family names.

Given name of deceased	Father of deceased	Death date Yahrzeit	Location of grave	Notes
Avraham	Yehuda	May 13th 1895 Iyyar 19th	Row 5, Grave 42
Avraham	Chaim	May 29th 1909 Sivan 9th	Row 4, Grave 18
Avraham / Abraham SCHIKLER	Shraga / Feibusz SCHIKLER	July 12th 1915  (?) Av 1st	Row 19, Grave 43
Bashe / Basia FUCHS nee NN	Benjamin	March 9th 1934 Adar 22nd	Row 1, Grave 36
Bezalel	Moshe Johel	May 2nd 1900 (?) Iyyar 3th	Row 12, Grave 9
Chaia	Ira	March 3rd 1914 Adar 5th	Row 4, Grave 22
Chaia	Zvi	July 16th 1914 Tammuz 22nd	Row 24, Grave 51
Eliezer / Lajzor VATER	Samuel Osias VATER	Oct 26th 1936	Row 44, Grave 5
Eliezer / Leizor MANBER	Chaim Mordechai / Chaim \ Markus MANBER	July 3rd 1926 Tammuz 21st	Row 5, Grave 6
Ester Necha	Yitzchak	…… Sh’vat 1st	Row 10, Grave 68
Ester Rachel ' Ester HERZBERG nee GOTTESMAN	Moshe Yehuda / Moses Osias GOTTESMAN	Feb 6th 1932  Adar 1st	Row 5, Grave 11
Feivel	……..	………..	Row 17, Grave 10
Fishel Meir / Fischel SCHNEIDER	Josef	July 15th 1915 Av 2nd	Row 18, Grave 53
Gershon	……….	…….. Kislev 8th	Row 20, Grave 34
Gershon / Gerszon  KRÄMERMAN	Chaim	April 14th 1932 Nissan 8th	Row 2, Grave 8
Hena / Hena HAUSEN nee LACHS or WACHS	Meir	April 28th 1935 Nisan 25th	Row 5, Grave 12
Hena Rivka	Eliezer	Feb 17th 1891 Adar 9th	Row 19, Grave 4
Josef Zvi / Josef Hersz KULMAN	Shimon	July 9th 1933 Tammuz 15th	Row 1, Grave 62
Levi Avraham	Shmuel	Oct 29th 1893 Cheshvan 19th	Row 13, Grave 13
Malka / Malka BROCH nee SPINDEL	Avraham / Abraham SPINDEL	6th 1919 Iyyar 6th	Row 27, Grave 17
Malka Pesha / Malka Pesza ROSENBACH nee SCHIKLER	Shraga / Feidusz Lewi SCHIKLER	July 15th 1915 Av 3rd	Row 14, Grave 3
Menachem Mendel / Mendel ZIMERMAN	Kalonimus	Jan 21st 1936 Tevet 25th	Grave 2, Grave 12
Mordechai POTASZNIK	Berish	April 7th 1938 Nisan 6th	Row 43 Grave 5
Mordechai Selig / Selig WINDMAN	Zeev	Jan 7th 1933 Tevet 9th	Roe 41, Grave 7
Moshe Dov	Yehuda	……. Cheshvan 5th	Row 26, Grave 11
Naftali	Moshe Arie	Feb 1st 1910 Sh’vat 22nd	Row 3, Grave 27
Rachel / Rachel SPIELMAN nee ZIMERMAN	Zvi / Hersz ZIMERMAN	Feb 24th 1931 Adar 7th	Row 1, Grave 35
Rachel APISDORF	Chaim APISDORF	July 5th 1932 Tammuz 2nd	Row 29, Grave 31
Rachel Rivka	Mendl	Feb 21st 1909 Sh'vat 30th	Row 2, Grave 46
Rafael / Rafael MEHR	Chaim	Sept 23rd 1935 Elul 25th	Row 1, Grave 7
Reisel  / Reizla RISS nee APISDORF	Shmuel / Samuel APISDORF	Nov 25th 1915 Kislev 18th	Row 14, Grave 2
Shabtai David / Schabza Dawid  ZIMERMAN	Mordechai Mendel	Dec 16th 1938	Row 27, Grave 5
Sheindel	Neta Yaakov	Sept 26th 1902 Elul 24th	Row 37, Grave 1
Sheindel / Scheindel RISS nee LANDAU	Joel Moshe LANDAU	Feb 7th 1924 Adar 2nd	Row 7, Grave 12
Sheindel / Scheindla REINBACH nee REINBACH	Chaim Samuel REINBACH	Nov 18th 1924  Cheshvan 22nd	Row 25, Grave 21
Shimon / Szymon LEMPEL	Yaakov	June 20th  1916 Sivan 19th (5676)	Row 11, Grave 4
Shmerl	Moshe Eliezer	Jan 15th 1904 Tevet 27th	Row 4, Grave 62
Shmuel	Yechiel	……..	Row 19, Grave 33 or
		………	Row 18, Grave 38
Shmuel	Yitzchak	Chanukka	Row 19, Grave 56
Shmuel David	Eliezer	July 8th 1903 Tammuz 13th	Row 3 , Grave 50
Sima / Syma HERZBERG nee FEDER	Shmuel/ Samuel FEDER	March 9th 1936 Adar 15th	Row 28, Grave 7
Uri	Israel	Sept 24th 1895 Tishri 8th	Row 5, Grave 39
Yaakov / Jakob  GÖTZEL	Chaim Shmuel	Nov 22nd 1931 Kislev 12th	Row 1, Grave 51
Yaakov / Jakob BERG	Avraham	March 4th 1933 Adar 6th	Row 4, Grave 5
Yaakov Eliezer	Mordechai Zeev	1865 ..........	Row 20, Grave 21
Yehuda Eli	Shlomo	Av 2nd	Row 23, Grave 6
Yehuda Leibush	Chaim Shmuel	……. Nisan 23rd	Row 26, Grave 14
Zalman Nisan / Selman SPINDEL	Moshe Eliezer	Feb 7th 1927 Adar 5th	Row 24, Grave 27
Zvi	Yechiel	........	Row 17, Grave 25

From this list,   the following family names could indicate a family of LEVI / Levites:

APISDORF

BERG

FEDER

GÖTZEL

KRÄMERMAN
KULMAN
LACHS or WACHS

LANDAU

LEMPEL

MANBER
MEHR
POTASZNIK
SCHIKLER
SCHNEIDER

SPINDEL

WACHS or LACHS

WINDMAN

ZIMERMAN

You are welcome to look for more LEVI among the graves, because this list of close to 50 names is not complete.