His story, like so many others, was forgotten for decades in Hungary. In the 1990s people rescued by him initiated a memorial in his honor. It was eventually erected in October 2008 in the City Park of Budapest, where in July 2015 a street was also named after him. On 23 October 1996 he was given a posthumous gold medal by President of Hungary Árpád Göncz. He was awarded the Righteous Among the Nations title by Yad Vashem in 2002. In 2007 a 70-minute documentary film was made with the recollections of survivors by the title Captain László Ocskay, the Forgotten Hero. In 2008 a documentary book was published by historian Szabolcs Szita: The Story of László Ocskay in view of saving Jews in the Holocaust. In October 2019 the community of created an interactive theater play, Being Human, recalling life at the number 101/359 battalion using the original venue of the events.
