News media in L’viv are reporting on the discovery of fragments of matzevot, Jewish gravestones, near L’viv — they are thought to be fragments from the city’s destroyed Old Cemetery, which is now occupied by a large market.
According to a video report on the L’viv 24 news site, the fragments were obtained about a month ago by a resident of the town Brukhovych, a suburb of L’viv, as building material to pave a road to his house from the main street. He was dissuaded from doing so by other people who recognized the paving material as matzevot.
According to Meylakh Sheykhat in L’viv, who has worked for many years to protect Jewish cemeteries and heritage sites in Ukraine, the gravestones had been used by someone for many years to pave his yard. This man decided to get rid of them as he felt that problems in his life were due to mis-using Jewish gravestones; he took them to a rubbish collection place. The second man took them from there, but ultimately decided not to use the stones for paving and instead brought the situation to the attention of Jewish representatives.