Oleśnica, 21 April 1989
Editorial Board of the “Zorza” weekly
00-551 Warsaw
Mokotowska Street 43
In response to the article entitled “The list of the missing”, which was published in “Wieczór Wrocławia”, we submit the following data concerning our father, Jan Ogrodowicz, who went missing in the course of military operations in September 1939.
1. Jan Ogrodowicz, son of Marcin and Michalina née Sawinska, born on 21 December 1889
in Bugaj, Września district, lately resident of Łęka Opatowska, Kępno district.
| 2. | Education: elementary. |
| 3. | He served in the Polish State Police since 1919 – lately as a senior constable at the station in Opatów on the Prosna River, Kępno district. |
| 4. | On 1 September 1939, together with military troops, he retreated into the hinterland, and on 4 September 1939 Mr. Hazubski from Ostrzeszów saw him in the vicinity of Łęczyca. The next – and last – piece of information about our father was provided at the beginning of 1940 by Mr. Świtoń from Ostrzeszów, who saw father and talked to him in the town of Shepetivka in the USSR. Mr. Świtoń proposed to my father that they escape from the camp, but my father refused due to poor health. Mr. Świtoń fled the camp on his own and returned home. Presently, Mr. Świtoń and Mr. Hazubski are deceased, so we cannot ask them for more details. |
We don’t have any information. All our efforts to find our father through the International Red Cross also came to nothing.
We attached the photograph of our father taken shortly before the outbreak of the war in 1939. We kindly ask you to return this photograph to us, as it is our only family keepsake.
We are fully aware that the above-provided data are far from exhaustive, but we truly hope that they still might help in identifying materials in your possession and determining the fate of our father.
Yours truly,
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