Are Italian records digitized?
I am looking for information about the death of Tomasz (Thomas) Pawlik. He was born on October 15, 1878 in Męcina, Limanowa district, Galicia Austria (now Poland). He died somewhere in Italy between 1916 and 1920 as a prisoner of war. He was in a camp in Marsala, Sicily. Maybe someone knows something.
Joanna M
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@JoannaMalek Many Italian records are digitized and indexed, to be searchable by name. You might want to post in the Italy Research Group.
Good luck with the search.
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Did they ever register the deaths of prisoners of war with the local civil authorities? My guess is that no, they didn't, just as they didn't register any of the casualties of a battle. A soldier's death would've been recorded in a military register, and possibly in a civil register back home, if his commanders and/or family filed the right paperwork.
I presume your information about Thomas Pawlik comes from his Verlustliste entry (https://digi.landesbibliothek.at/viewer/image/AC08513816_Verlustliste_Nr_0456/42/LOG_0025/). What makes you think he died there? Is it simply the lack of records about him back home after the war? Such gaps are often due to privacy laws or lack of indexing, not actual absence of the person.
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Yes. I have information from the list of war losses. Tomas Pawlik did not return home from the war. His widow remarried.
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