Oswald Bosko (also spelled Bousko or Bouska) was an Austrian policeman from Vienna later stationed at the Jewish ghetto of Kraków from 1942 to 1944.
Bosko was posthumously honored by the State of Israel as a Righteous Among the Nations, an award for a non-Jew who risked their life during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis.
[2] In March, 1943, the Nazis decided to liquidate the ghetto in Kraków and to deport all children who lived there in order to kill them.
In historian Crowe's telling, Bosko sought to avoid transfer to the Eastern Front when he "injected himself with a drug that made him severely ill" and he was hospitalized.
Israel's Yad Vashem website cites September 18, 1944 as the date of Bosko's execution,[3] while Crowe lists it as October 18, 1944.