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Nasz Przeglad Warszawa Death Notices, 1923, 1937-1938

The Warszawa Research Group presents the second in our series of life-cycle data. In lieu of the availablility of 20th century Warszawa vital records, the Warszawa Research Group is currently indexing the death notices and memorial service notices from the Polish-language Jewish periodical Nasz Przeglad ("Our Review").

This newspaper was published daily in Warszawa from 1923 until August 1939. The Nasz Przeglad issues from July 1937 through August 1939 are available at the New York Public Library [call number: *ZY-*P43] (12 reels). The YIVO Library has issues for 1923-1939 [call number Y-96-1543.1-137]; and Harvard's Lamont Library also has the 1923-1939 issues [call # Film NC 435] (39 reels). Copies are also available at the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem [call # PV 3236].

The vast majority of information is for Warszawa residents. However, there were also notices for people in other cities in Poland as well as other countries. It is believed that the out-of-country notices were usually for people whose original residence was Warszawa or have family living in Warszaw during the time that the notice was published. Examples of out-of-country notices were for people living in the United States, Palestine, Sweden and Canada.

Database Contents

1923	March 27, 28, 30, 31 April 3-6, 9-14, 16-30 May 2, 9
1937	July 1-30 August 1-17, 19-30 September 1-5, 8-30 October 1-31 November 1-30 December 1-31
1938	January 1-31 February 1-28 March 1-8, 10-31 April 1-4, 6-30 May 1-5

This database currently contains the 2,762 death notices from 1923, 1937 and 1938 only. The dates of coverage are specified in the table to the right. Additional entries will be added as indexing work is completed.

Database Fields

The following fields are the fields recorded in the database. The first three are always present. The remaining fields are recorded if the information is available in the newspaper.

Issue Date - the data the newspaper was published
Surname - the deceased's surname
Given Name - the deceased's given name(s). In a few cases it is derived.
Maiden Name - the deceased's maiden name
Age - age at death of the deceased
Died - the date of death
Spouse - the deceased's spouse's given name
Town - the town of where the deceased resided at the time of death. This field is left blank for residents of Warsaw.
Memorial - an indication if the notice is for a tombstone unveiling or memorial service

Those entries labeled "Memorial Service" come from an advertisement which lists many names with the time and date of the memorial service. Very rarely is there any additional information on the deceased in the memorial service advertisement.

For the death notices, however, not all of the available information in the death notice may have been recorded on the database. A review of the original death notice may also contain information such as:

Surviving family relationships and possibly their given name and surname, i.e. if there were sisters, brothers, children, grandchildren, parents, etc.
Address of the deceased
Towns/Country where surviving family members live
Location of plot in cemetery
Deceased's profession
Deceased's organizational affiliations

If multiple notices/advertisements for the same deceased was present in the same newspaper issue then only one entry was documented on the database. If notices appeared for the same deceased over several issues then the database recorded an entry per newspaper issue.

Please note certain information such as name spellings, variations of given names and the age at death may differ from notice to notice for the same person.

Typical examples of the death notices:

Click on either image for a larger view.

For assistance in translating Polish obituaries, the Polish Genealogical Society of America has compiled a glossary of common terms, which can be found at http://www.pgsa.org/DzChicObit.pdf. Also see William Hoffman's "A Crash Course in Polish: Words You Can Use". [Both files are in PDF format, which requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader].

A good resource for Polish Jewish newspaper information is the article written by Michael C. Steinlauf, "The Polish-Jewish Daily Press", in Polin - A Journal of Polish Jewish Studies, Volume 2, 1987. (Oxford, England: Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies), ISSN #0268-1056.

For further questions, please contact Hadassah Lipsius.

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