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JoannaMalek
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February 13, 2024 edited December 23, 2024 in Search


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.


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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    February 13, 2024

    @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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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    February 13, 2024

    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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  • JoannaMalek
    JoannaMalek ✭
    February 14, 2024

    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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