Editorial Board of the “Zorza” weekly
In response to the appeal of Mr. Jędrzej Tucholski, concerning information about Polish officers who perished in Katyń, we submit the following data pertaining to our father, a surgeon, and medical doctor Zygmunt Oziębło, who was interned at the camp in Kozelsk and subsequently murdered in Katyń (he is listed on the Katyń List among those exhumed from mass graves in 1943, under item 1302).
Data in the sequence from the questionnaire:
1. Zygmunt Oziębło, son of Emilian and Marianna née Świerzewska, born on 14 April 1904
in Warsaw, last place of residence: Łódź, interned at the camp in Kozelsk.
| 2. | Higher education; physician, medical doctor, a surgeon in permanent employment as senior assistant at the surgical department of the President Mościcki Hospital in Łódź. |
| 3. | Lieutenant in the reserve. |
| 4. | Not applicable. |
| 5. | Towards the end of September 1939, he was taken prisoner in the vicinity of Tarnopol. |
| 6. | There was one letter with Christmas greetings in 1939, sent from the camp in Kozelsk to the address of our mother (the wife, Irena Oziębło née Figler). |
| 7. | Attached are the following documents: two photographs (one of my father wearing a uniform) and photocopies of: his curriculum vitae; evaluation report signed by Prof. Wincenty Tomaszewicz, head of the surgical department of the President Mościcki Hospital in Łódź; ID card of an instructor of physical education and military training; permission to wear military uniform; letter from the camp in Kozelsk, where he was interned; clipping from a German newspaper of 18 May 1943, where he is listed among the identified victims as “Oziabl Zygmunt, Leutnant”; notice from the [Information] Bureau of the Polish Red Cross in Warsaw, dated 29 April 1946, informing us of the presence of our father’s surname on Polish lists of military men exhumed from mass graves in Kozia Góra near Smolensk. |
| 8. | Daughters: Irena […], Zofia […]; wife Irena […], deceased in 1971. |
Dearest Irenka!
Happily I am well – there is no need for you to worry about me. How are you and your dearest ones? Are they safe and sound too? And how is Bogdałka? Does he walk well and talk much? I think that our family is bigger now, that you have already given birth to the child.
You see how many questions I have, but that’s not all. I’m afraid to ask about mother, Anielka and Lucek. On the night from 6 to 7 September I was in the house in Warsaw. Mother, Anielka, and Lucek weren’t home, and the flat was locked. The caretaker told me that mother and Anielka left on 3 September, but that he didn’t know where they went. This is why I’m very worried about them. I think that they went to our place, but did they get there? This causes me a lot of concern. Are they alive and well? Please get in touch with the Szymańskis, they might have some information, or maybe the family from Skierniewice. That would be all that I ask of you. [Illegible] take care [?] of my family as well, especially my mother.
Give my best regards to your family and our friends, and wish them all a happy Christmas.
I give you my kisses and wait for your prompt response.
Best wishes from Zdzisiek Boniek.
Your Zygmunt
My address:
USSR
город Козелск
область Смоленская
почтовый ящик Nr 12
Озембло Зигмунд Емилянович
[illegible]
[Photocopy of both sides of the permission to wear military uniform – second lieutenant in the reserve Zygmunt Oziębło]