Exhibition in Canada on the Ulma Family
The exhibition entitled “The Markowa Samaritans – the Ulma Family Murdered by the Germans for Helping Jews” was presented, for the first time, in Warsaw on 24th March 2010. It then travelled to many places in Poland, as well as to Munich. Its creator is Mateusz Szpytma from the Kraków branch of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN). The exhibition was created in cooperation with the Central Agricultural Library, the Museum of the History of the Polish Peasant Movement and the National Centre of Culture.
The exhibition is part of this year's Holocaust Education Month in Ottawa and will be open from 4th to 24th October 2013 at Ottawa University.
It presents the story of the Ulma family from the village of Markowa in the Podkarpackie Province. During German occupation, they hid two Jewish families in their home. They were denounced to the Germans by a Polish policeman. On 24th March 1944, Germans entered the Ulm home and murdered the entire family - Józef Ulma, his wife and their six children. They also murdered the eight Jews being hidden there.
In eighteen months time, the Ulma Family Museum of Poles Saving Jews will be established in Markowa. On 30th September, a construction site was handed over to the Skanska company which will construct the building.
