Old Jewish Cemetery Memorial Plaque (Lviv)

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Józef Awin (1883, Lviv — 1942, Lviv, Yanivsky concentration camp) was an engineer, architect, restorer, photographer, graphic artist, painter and watercolorist, historian and theorist of art, collector.
Awin was a cofounder of the Organization of the Care of Jewish Monuments. Among other things, it did inventarization and restoration of old tombstones at this cemetery.

Abraham Kohn – the first chief reform rabbi of Lviv.
Władyław Jagiełło – a king of Poland and a grand duke of Lithuania.
David Halevy – the author of the Turei Zahav ritual codex.
Jean du Desfilles – the author of a 1766 plan of Lviv.
Izak Nachmanowicz – a rich Lviv usurer and merchant, the head of the town Jewish community who financed construction of the Turei Zahav synagogue known also as The Golden Rose or Nachmanowycz’s synagogue.
Lewi Freund – a Lviv rabbi, one of the founders of the Curatory for the Jewish Monuments Care.
Maurycy Lazarus – the Jewish hospital founder.
Majer (Meir) Bałaban – a Polish and Jewish historian.
Mordechaj Izaakowicz – a rich citizen, Izak Nachmanowicz’s son, who founded the first Jewish hospital in Lviv.
Nachman Izaakowicz – a rich citizen, Izak Nachmanowicz’s son.
Roza Nachmanowicz (Gildene Rojze) – the key figure of a legend about how the Jews got their synagogue back; according to different sources, she might be Izak Nachmanowicz’s wife or daughter.
Samuel Horowitz – the chief of a committee engaged in restoring the gravestones of the Jewish cemetery, carrying out excavations in its territory and studying epitaphs