Nasz Przegląd Warszawa Death Notices, 1923–1939

Death Notices · Warszawa · Poland

In lieu of the availability of 20th century Warszawa vital records, the Warszawa Research Group has indexed the death notices and memorial service notices from the Polish-language Jewish periodical Nasz Przegląd (“Our Review”). Nasz Przegląd was a Polish-language Zionist newspaper, published daily in Warszawa from March 1923 until September 1939.

The vast majority of the death notices are for Warszawa residents. However, there were also notices for people in other cities in Poland, as well as in other countries. It is believed that the out-of-country notices were usually for people whose original residence was Warszawa, or who had family living in Warszawa at the time that the notice was published. Out-of-country notices were published for people living in places such as the United States, Palestine, Sweden and Canada.

The database currently contains 20,743 death notices from 1923–1939. Additional entries are being added as indexing work is completed.

The Nasz Przegląd 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 National Library of Israel in Jerusalem [call # PV 3236].

Nasz Przegląd is now available online at Polona and is sourced from the Bibliotecka Naradowa in Warszawa. The Warszawa Research Group has begun to link the Nasz Przegląd images to the search results. Link images will show the words “Click for page image” on the line of the search results.

The first three fields are always present. The remaining fields are recorded only where the information is available in the newspaper.

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 in this database.

This database can be searched via the All Poland Database or the JewishGen Unified Search.