Tombstone of Sara Schmerler

Tombstone of:
Sara Schmerler
Tombstone date: 
1937
Cemetery: 
Community: 
Code: 
A027
Made of: 
Sandstone
Epitaph style: 
Sunken letters
Directions: 
Facing west
Sizes: 
Height 146 cm, Width 59 cm, Thickness 16 cm
Epitaph text: 

 

נפטרה שבעה ימים בחודש טבת

שנת

תרצז

פנ אשה הולכת ישר

שרה בת מנחם מענדיל עליה נאמר

רבות בנות עשו חיל [משלי לא, כט]

היתה בת ת"ח מופלג

בשנת שבעים ושש

לימי חיה תנצבה

אשת יוסף שמערלער

Sara Schmerler

 

English translation of epitaph: 

 

Passed away on seventh day of the month Tevet

Year (5)695

Here lies woman

[who] kept the way of honest 

Sara daughter of Menahem Mendel about which it is said:

Many daughters have done nobly [But you excel them all; Proverbs 31: 29]

She was a daughter of an outstanding Torah scholar

Seventy six years old, May her soul be bound in the bundle of life.

Wife of Yosef Shmerler

Sara Schmerler

Decoration program: 

A candelabrum and two birds

Description: 

Good

Documentation date: 
August 2009
Documented by: 
Andrei Shpirt
Documented by (old): 
Research date: 
September 2009
Researched by: