Oswald Bosko
Oswald Boska , also Oswald Bouska , (* February 23, 1907 , † September 18, 1944 ) was an Austrian Righteous Among the Nations .
The Viennese policeman Oswald Bosko was a sergeant in the German police in the Krakow ghetto . He helped Julius Madritsch and Raimund Titsch to rescue Jewish ghetto residents.
Shortly before the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto in March 1943, the National Socialists decided to deport all Jewish children from the ghetto in order to murder them. Oswald Bosko helped Madritsch to save hundreds of children from the ghetto. He found Poles willing to take in the children temporarily.
After the liquidation of the ghetto, Bouska looked for the Jewish families who had remained hidden and made it possible for them to be transferred to Madritsch's sewing shop. Then he organized a rescue operation. In July 1944 he deserted. The Gestapo was feverishly looking for him. After a few months he was arrested and accused of desertion and racial disgrace - he was living with a Jewish woman. After the process in Krakow, he was finally to KL Gross Rosen - where many other German deserters were - taken and there on September 18, 1944 shot .
literature
- Andrzej Selerowicz, Winfried R. Garscha: Two Viennese SS men in Krakow. In: Perpetrators: Austrian Actors in National Socialism Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (Ed.) DÖW, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-901142-64-2 . Pp. 41-77. ( Digitized version , PDF; 1.8 MB)
Web links
- The righteous of Austria
- Oswald Bosko - Yad Vashem Website (English)
- Oswald Bouska (1907-1944) -
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information according to the personal file from the police archive, Vienna ( digital copy )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bosko, Oswald |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bouska, Oswald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian Righteous Among the Nations |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1907 |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 18, 1944 |