Honoring Heinrich Ostashevsky in Odessa
On July 9, a ceremonial unveiling of a memorial plaque dedicated to Heinrich Ostashevsky – a Righteous Among the Nations and distinguished Ukrainian artist who saved Jews during the Romanian occupation – will take place in Odessa.
This is reported by the Odessa Holocaust Museum.
The event is initiated by the Odessa regional association of Jews – former inmates of ghettos and Nazi concentration camps, the team of the Odessa Academic Ukrainian Theater named after V. Vasylyk, and the Odessa Holocaust Museum.
Heinrich Ostashevsky has already been honored in Prokhorivsky Square in Odessa, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, and on the Walls of the Righteous.
The installation of the memorial plaque is not just an act of tribute but a symbolic gesture of preserving historical memory and a statement of solidarity with those who stood firm in the face of evil, as noted by the museum.
Born in Odessa in 1921, Heinrich Ostashevsky studied at the Odessa Theater School.
After the liberation of Odessa from Romanian occupation in 1944, he became an actor at the Odessa Theater for Young Spectators, where he worked for 14 years.
From 1958, he worked at the Odessa Ukrainian Musical Drama Theater named after the October Revolution.
His filmography includes over a dozen films from the Soviet period.
Heinrich Ostashevsky passed away in Odessa in 2004 at the age of 84 and is buried at the Second Christian Cemetery.
