Olha Bassarab

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Olha Bassarab

Olha Mychajliwna Bassarab ( Ukrainian Ольга Михайлівна Басараб , born Левицька Lewyzka ; born September 1, 1889 in Pidhoroddja , Galicia , Austria-Hungary ; † February 12, 1924 in Lwów , Poland ) was a Ukrainian activist.

Life

Olha Bassarab was born in Pidhoroddja in what is now the Ukrainian district of Rohatyn in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast as the daughter of a priestly family. In Weißwasser , Silesia , she attended a private girls 'school and, from 1902, the Lyceum at the Ukrainian Girls' Institute in Przemyśl , which she completed in 1909. Then she did a one-year course at the commercial academy in Vienna . On October 10, 1914, she married the student of the Polytechnic Institute and head of the Osnova Student Union, Dmitry Basaraba, who fell in Italy on June 22, 1915.

She was the first woman to join the Sitscher rifle in Lviv and did charitable and educational work during the First World War . After the war she helped the wounded and internees as well as the civilian population in Vienna at the Red Cross . She was also a secretary at the embassy of the Ukrainian People's Republic in Finland and an advisor at the Vienna Embassy of the West Ukrainian People's Republic and a member of the board of the Ukrainian Women's Union ( Союз українок ) in Vienna. During her stay abroad, she worked for the foreign intelligence service of the Ukrainian People's Republic and visited Denmark , Norway and Germany , among others, in order to collect military strategic and political information . After the Ukrainian diplomatic missions closed in 1924, she was one of the organizers and board member of the branch of the Ukrainian Women's Union in Lviv. On February 2nd, 1924, she was arrested by the Polish police for belonging to a Ukrainian military organization and tortured to death in prison during interrogation on the night of February 12th and 13th, 1924. She was buried in the Janivskyj Cemetery ( Янівський цвинтар ) in Lviv with the participation of several thousand Lviv residents and several hundred police officers. In the following years her grave became a destination for pilgrimages.

Her martyrdom had a major impact on the interwar generation of Ukrainian Galicians .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Olha Bassarab on incognita.day.kiev.ua ; accessed on February 22, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ Short biography of Olha Basarab on the website of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine; accessed on March 2, 2020 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Entry on Basarab, Olha in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on February 21, 2019
  4. ^ Entry on Olha Bassarab in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on February 21, 2019 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Bassarab, Olha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bassarab, Olha Mychajliwna (full name); Басараб, Ольга Михайлівна (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian activist
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Pidhoroddja , Galicia , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1924
Place of death Lwów , Poland