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Shmul Levin was an eleven-year-old boy from Russia who died tragically in Lüneburg in 1912.
The head of the synagogue community, Moritz Jacobsohn, noted Schmul Levin"s death and burial with brief words in the comminity"s death list: "Son of a Jewish emigrant from Russia, died on Aug. 7, 1912 in the local municipal hospital, after having been seriously injured a few days earlier by falling out of a railroad car on the way to Hamburg, and was buried in the local Central Cemetery. Exhumed at the instigation of the Central Bureau for Jewish Emigration Affairs and buried in our cemetery on May 14, 1913, attended by teacher Wolff and head Jacobsohn."
Sources and information:
Jewish civil status lists, Lüneburg Synagogue Community. Film 1927, death list 1844-1939. Landesarchiv Hannover, Hann. 83 b