Lublin, Poland: Death Incidents Register · Searching the
Database This database includes information from 681 death
incident reports from Lublin in November 1941 and January 1942.
During World War II, the German occupiers of Lublin required the
municipality to prepare a supplementary “Death Incident Report”,
in addition to issuing official death certificates for the
Lublin deaths during some period of the war. There were three
groups of these death incidents reports which survive, and are
maintained by the Polish State Archives banch in Lublin. The
first and third files contain a portion of Jewish deaths in the
city (ghetto) during the months of November 1941 and January
1942, respectively. The second file apparently covers 61 non-
Jewish deaths in the city for the month of December, 1941.
Contemporary Lublin historians believe that the ultimate purpose
of the death incident report was to provide information to the
German occupiers about private property, in order to plan the
confiscation of property of dead c