Oswald Bosko

Oswald Bosko
Died18 September 1944
NationalityAustrian
Known forRighteous Among the Nations

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. He supported Julius Madritsch in rescuing Jews during World War II. 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.

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