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Ulma Family Mateusz Szpytma, a Polish historian and co-author of the book "The Sacrifice of the Just: The (More) Mateusz Szpytma, a Polish historian and co-author of the book "The Sacrifice of the Just: The Ulma Family Gave Their Lives for Helping Jews":In the summer and spring of 1942, Germans murdered the majority of the Jewish citizens of Markowa," a small village in southeastern Poland. "One of the families who made a heroic decision to hide the Jews was the Ulma family," Szpytma explained. "Eight Jewish people found shelter in the Ulmas' house." "At dawn on March 24, 1944, military policemen arrived at the house of Jozef Ulma. There were soon thereafter a few shots heard -- the Jews were killed first," Szpytma continued. Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma were then "led out of the house and executed." A witness to the tragedy testified that "the children were calling for their parents, but the parents were already dead. It was a shocking sight." Szpytma explained that "having shot the parents, among the yells, the policemen started to discuss what to do with the children." It was decided the children should also be executed. And so died the Ulmas' six children "and the seventh child in his mother's womb, just a few days before the day of his planned birth. In just a few dozen minutes 17 people were killed," recalled Szpytma. "Owing to the help of other Poles who kept Jews in their houses until the end of the war, at least 17 people survived in Markowa," the historian said. The Ulma family has been honored with the title Righteous Among the Nations.
Sheltering or helping Jews in German-occupied Poland posed a serious danger to anyone doing it. Poland was the only country where the German-Nazis ordered a death penalty not only for the persons directly aiding them but even for the neighbors living nearby.
Polish citizens have the highest amount of Righteous Among The Nations awards at the Yad Vashem Museum.
Poland 6,066 Righteous Among The Nations
Total 22,211 Righteous Among The Nations
in 2008
Helping Jews was very risky — in German-occupied Poland, all household members were punished by death if a hidden Jew was found in their house. This was the most severe legislation in occupied Europe.
24 March 1944, in Markowa, one of the thousand villages under the German occupation, there was an event that shook the inhabitants and the whole region. The Polish family Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma with their children were shot for having hidden Jews. 17 people, including eight children, were killed because they were Jewish or Polish people that had courage to offer help that was forbidden. The Ulmas were awarded the medal of the Righteous Among the Nations. Their beautification process on the diocesan level began in 2003. (Less)
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