Here are the numbers of death for each year.
1915 231
1916 49
1917 52
1918 69
1919 45
1920 77
1921 41
1922 49
1923 43
1924 55
1925 38
1926 45
1927 35
1928 26
1929 30
1930 44
1931 42
1932 33
1933 37
1934 39
1935 38
1936 31
1937 26
1938 37
As the year of 1915 stands out with 231 deaths, I would like to show the numbers of death each month for that year.
January 1915 1
February 1915 0
March 1915 12
April 1915 8
May 1915 9
June 1915 5
July 1915 82
August 1915 27
September 1915 4
October 1915 61
November 1915 7
December 1915 8
1915, month not clear 7
Two months in 1915 stand out - July and October. Two months when more people died in one month than would die in one year or even in two "normal" years.
Result of the warfare in the area and/or of disease?
Point to consider: The heaviest fighting between the Germans and the Russians in this area seems to have taken place in June 1915.
There is a gravestone for Rachel, daughter of Efraim, who died young, "in the war from a rocket" on Tammuz 5th 5675 ( June 17th 1915). I have not been able to identify her family name.
The year 1918 with 69 deaths, the year 1919 with 45 deaths and the year 1920 with 77 deaths - could these numbers partially be a result of the Spanish flu?
Read more about the Spanish flu here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic
Two stories from relatives whose descendants lived in Lubaczow before or during WWI:
First story: After the First World War Jewish families in Lubaczow wanted to emigrate, in this particular case to the States , because so many had died/ were dying in Lubaczow.
Second story: One Jewish family that had moved from Lubaczow to Wien at the beginning of WWI was told by their relatives still living in Lubaczow, not to return, because so many people had died/ were dying in Lubaczow.
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