English Translation

Copy V6 Gendarmerieposten Podiebrad,Bezirk PodieBrad. Podie Brad, 17 May 1942. Exh.No.2821/42 Subject: O g u r e k, Winfried from Podiebrod, Drinking Death. It is reported that on 17 May 1942 at 15.30 o'clock a German schooler named Winfried O g u r e k from the KLV camp "Recovery home in Podiebrad" drowned in the Elbe near the lock in Podibrad. Winfried Ogurek, together with Heinz Meyer and Gunther Bottcher, all three from the same camp in Podiebrad, towed a boat from the banks of the Elbe river above the lock into the water and tried to drive the boat on the Elbe, using only 2 stucco boards instead of standing oars. The named ones came with the boat to the flowing water which was 195 cm above normal water level and were quickly driven against the lock. When they saw that they could no longer get to the shore by rowing with the boats, all three jumped into the water. Heinz Meyer and Gunther Bottcher managed to line the shore by swimming, while Winfried Ogurek drowned in the water under the lock. Winfried 0 g u r e k was on 1.9.29 in Essen-borbeck, Essen County, gèboren, at the time in the KLV. camp "Erho lungsheim" in Podiebrad, Viktoriastrasse No. 3l3/II. The parents live in Essen Deliwig, Gerschermannsweg No.87. The gendarmerie in Neuchâtel a.d.E. in order to be able to receive the body of the disillusioned Winfried O g u r e k empfan- gendarme. and the other competent departments along the river remotely understood, Go to the gendarmerie main team in Kolin, Oberlandratsamt Deutsches Gendarmiere-Kommando:/ in Kolin, Deutsches-Gendarmerei Kommanda, Ausstelltstelle in Neuchâtel a.d.Elbe, Bezirksbehörde in Podiebrad, Gendarderie-Department Command in Jungbunzlau.