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Inscription on the pillar at the entrance to the

Burshivka Society section in the

Mount Lebanon Cemetery in Queens, NY

(Transcription by Nathen Gabriel)

Following the pogroms, the First Burshivker Sick And Benevolent Association, a landsmanshaft formed in New York City in 1904, placed a memorial pillar at the entrance to the Burshivka Society burial section in the Mount Lebanon Cemetery in Queens, New York. The pillar bears an inscription honoring the memory of their loved ones who perished:

Eternal Memory

To the martyrs that were killed that were slaughtered

That were burnt in sanctification of His Holy Name

500 human beings

Men women and children

In the city of Borshivke

During the time of the pogroms in Ukraine

In the year 5679 (1919)

May Their Souls Be Bound Up in the Bundle of Life