Victoria and Joseph Ulma: Martyred Righteous among the Nations
In a conference given on April 7, 2011 in Rome, Mateusz Szpytma from Cracow told of the heroic lives of Victoria and Joseph Ulma from Markowa, Poland, executed together with their seven children for having hidden eight Jews during the Shoah.
Read the story of the Ulma family here
Read the Yad VaShem article on the Ulma family here
The Ulma family were awarded the Righteous Among the Nations medal and in August 2003 a beatification process was launched in the Diocese of Przemy?l and has already been completed. The required document will be delivered to Vatican on May 24, 2011.
The monument in Markowa visited by pilgrims, bears a notation: “Saving the lives of others, they sacrificed their own lives: Józef Ulma, his wife Wiktoria and children Stasia, Basia, W?adzio, Franu?, Anto?, Marysia, an unborn infant. Concealing eight of our older brothers in faith, Jews of the Szall and Golman families, they died together with them in Markowa on March 24, 1944, at the hands of the German gendarmerie. May their sacrifice be an appeal for respect and love due to all! They were sons and daughters of this land, and remain in our hearts.”
Memorial to the Jesuit Righteous Among the Nations