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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. He then fled with a Polish mistress and two Jewish children. He wrote his commanding officer that partisans had kidnapped him,
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and to deport all children who lived there in order to kill them. Oswald Bosko and Julius Madritsch helped hundreds of children to escape the ghetto. He also found people who were willing to house them temporarily.
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After the liquidation of the ghetto, Bosko looked for Jewish families that hid from the Nazis. Whoever he found, he managed to bring to Madritsch's textile factory. Then he organized a rescue.
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to act as a fifth column against the Austrian government" after the Nazi Party was outlawed in Austria in the summer of 1933. Yet Bosko turned against the Nazis after
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but the officer soon determined otherwise. Bosko was ultimately captured, court-martialed for treason, desertion, and disobedience, and sentenced to death. Israel's
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Bosko once had studied to be a Catholic monk but then abandoned that vocation and joined the Nazi Party; he even joined "an illegal
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recognized Oswald Bosko as Righteous Among the Nations. In 1982, Bosko appeared in the historically based novel
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website cites September 18, 1944 as the date of Bosko's execution, while Crowe lists it as October 18, 1944.
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Oskar Schindler: The Untold Account of His Life, Wartime Activities, and the True Story Behind the List
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