Friday, August 14, 2015

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.



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