THE TOMBSTONES OF OZAROW
By Norman L. Weinberg
We are pleased to publish for the first time, a comprehensive listing of all monuments with legible texts in the cemetery of Ozarow. As the custom in Ozarow was not to affix surnames on the stones, we ask readers to help in identifying those buried in the Ozarow cemetery.
The following names of those interred in the Ozarow Cemetery have been discerned from the photographs. The first name in bold letters, father's name, date of death and if Cohen or Levy are presented, in that order. Additional information, including maiden name, surname if known, and corresponding secular date, etc. is given in parentheses.
Name |
Father |
Date |
Cohen/Levy |
Draizel (Epstein) |
Rabbi Eliezer Sholom (Morgenstern) |
15 Shevat 5655/Feb. 9, 1895 |
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Chaya |
Avigdor |
8 Tamuz 5670/July 15, 1910 |
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Nosan Dovid |
Pesach Meir |
12 Iyar 5669/May 3, 1909 |
Levy |
Avrohom Yehuda |
Zev |
9 Kislev 5676/Nov 16, 1915 |
Cohen |
Yehuda Leib |
Yaacov |
? |
Levy |
Itamar |
? Zev |
20 Tevet 5665/Dec 28, 1904 |
Cohen |
Yitta |
Moshe |
21 Tevet 5673/Dec 31, 1912 |
Levy |
Yitzhok Menachem |
Moshe Alter |
16 Av 5697/July 24, 1937 |
|
Leah |
Yisroel |
25 Tamuz 5672/July 10, 1912 |
|
Dvora Yocheved |
Tzvi Yitzhok |
7 Tevet 5647/Jan 3, 1887 |
|
Chanoch Henech (an old man) |
Shimon |
? |
|
Gershon |
?...mim |
23 Shevat 5658/Feb 15, 1898 |
|
Yitta |
Yisroel |
?Cheshvan 5665, 1904 |
|
Meir |
Yechiel Nochum |
Sivan 5679/May-June, 1919 |
|
Fradil |
Yehuda Leibish |
21 Kislev 5659/Dec 5, 1898 |
|
Tzvi Yehuda |
Avrohom Yosef |
22 Sivan 5694/June 5, 1934 |
|
Elimelech, Rabbi & Tzadik |
Yaacov Yehuda |
4 Adar II 5660/March 5, 1900 |
|
Asher Anschel |
Dov |
23 ? |
|
Tzvi Hersh |
Yehuda Leib |
21 Adar II 5651/March 31, 1891 |
|
Yitzhok |
Moshe Rafoel |
23 Av, 5666/Aug. 14, 1906 |
Levy |
Esther |
Yisroel |
1 Iyar 5664/April 16, 1904 |
|
Chava |
Moshe |
4 Adar I 5665/Feb 9, 1905 |
|
Yitta |
Elimelech |
Cheshvan 5665/Oct.-Nov. 1904 |
|
? Motel |
? Moshe |
8 Elul 5698/Sept 4, 1938 |
|
Elazar |
Yitzhok |
3 Cheshvan 5692Oct 14, 1931 |
Levy |
Chaim |
Naftali Hertzl |
? |
|
Hadassa |
Moshe Nechemyah |
25 Av 5654Aug 27, 1894 |
Chassid |
Avrohom (an old man) |
Yechezkel |
6 Sivan 5647/May 29, 1887 |
|
Chaim Yaacov |
Shlomo |
14 Tishrei 5648/Oct. 2, 1887 |
|
Sholom |
Yehuda Arye |
25 Kislev 5693Dec 24, 1932 |
|
Moshe |
Yechezkel |
19 Cheshvan 5663/Oct 19, 1902 |
|
Yehuda Leibke |
Eliyahu |
20 Iyar 5687May 22, 1927 |
Levy, Chassid and Cantor |
Meir |
Avrohom |
27 Av 5676/Aug 26, 1916 |
Levy |
Hannah (an old woman, 92) |
Yisroel Tzvi |
9 Tevet 5668/Dec 14, 1907 |
|
Moshe |
Avrohom Yitzhok |
17 Shevat 5674/Feb 13, 1914 |
Levy |
? Yitzhok |
? Ezriel |
18 Sivan 5634/June 3, 1874 |
|
Fega Miriam (an old woman) |
Naftali Hertzka |
(20 ?)Cheshvan 5649/Oct-Nov, 1888 |
|
Chaya Sorah (an old woman) |
Moshe Yehuda |
? |
|
Rochel Frimet |
Reuven Menachem |
? |
|
Tzvi Yizthok |
Yechiel Dovid |
? |
|
Schmuel Zev |
Chaim Nosan |
? |
|
Mendl |
Moshe Elyokum Briyah |
? Tamuz 5669/June-July 1909 |
|
Elazar (70 years old) |
Tzvi Yehuda |
? |
|
Yisroel (Rabbi) |
Ezriel Yehuda |
17 Shevat 5654/Jan 24, 1894 |
Levy, Rabbi |
Baruch Dovid |
Naftali Hertzki |
Iyar 5695/May-June, 1935 |
|
Yechiel Yitzhok |
Shmaryohu |
10 Shevat 5695/Jan 14, 1935 |
|
Yehuda Leibish |
Nosan |
29 Kislev 5694/Dec 17, 1933 |
Rabbi |
Tzartil Hannah |
Naftali |
? |
|
Nochum Zacharia |
Yisroel |
10 Tamuz 5686/June 22, 1926 |
Levy |
Breindl (tender age) |
Moshe |
20 Adar I 5657/Feb 22, 1897 |
|
Yitzhok (24 years old) |
Elazar |
29 Nisan 5695/May 2, 1935 |
Levy |
Sorah |
Nosan |
21 Tevet 5689/Jan 3, 1929 |
|
Tzvi |
Moshe Dovid |
Kislev 5612/Nov.-Dec. 1852 |
|
Miriam (tender age) |
Meir |
14 Iyar (?), May (?) |
Cohen |
Mondil Beile |
Dov Baer |
Kislev 5612/Nov.-Dec. 1852 |
|
Yosef Dov |
Alexander |
4 Cheshvan 5674/Nov 4, 1913 |
|
Frieda |
Yisachar Bertsha |
Tishrei 5665/Sept.-Oct. 1904 |
|
Yehuda Leib |
Yitzhok |
6 Sivan 5654/June 10, 1894 |
Levy |
Yisroel Meir |
Nosan Nota |
25 Tishrei 5665/Oct 4, 1904 |
|
Meir (an old man) |
Yehuda Tzvi |
22 Cheshvan 5666/Nov. 20, 1905 |
|
Avrohom (Rabbi) |
Yisroel |
14 Iyar 5650/May 4, 1890 |
|
Rivka |
Rabbi Yechiel Chaim (Grandfather) |
Adar I 5649/Feb-March, 1889 |
Levy |
Sorah Hinda |
Rafoel Yehuda |
26 Kislev 5699/Dec 19, 1938 |
|
Avrohom (Rabbi) |
Elimelech |
2 Tevet 5677Dec 27, 1916 |
|
Eli (Rabbi) |
Yehuda (Rabbi) |
13 Sivan 5649/June 12, 1889 |
Levy |
Yoel |
Yehuda |
21 (?) Tevet 5660/Dec. 23 (?), 1890 |
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Hadasah |
Menachem Manish |
? |
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(A)-The photographs in the Ozarów Cemetery Photo Album were compiled by Dr. Norman Weinberg of East Amherst, N.Y., who donated the Photo Album to the Esh Dat Rabbinical Seminary Archives located at P.O. Box 36628, Tel Aviv, Israel.
(B)-The first monument is that of Rebetzin Draizel, daughter of Rabbi Eliezer Shalom Morgenstern, Rabbi of Pietrakov-Shedlitz. Draizel was the wife of Rabbi Arye Leibish Epstein, third Rabbi of Ozarów, and the grandmother of Moishe Yechiel Epstein Z.T.L. of Tel Aviv, the late Ozarówer Rabbi.
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