Construction of the Ulm Family Museum will commence

It will be the first museum in Poland dedicated to Polish citizens rescuing Jews during the war. The museum will present the stories of rescue in the Subcarpathia region. Special attention will be put on the story of the Ulm family, murdered by the Nazi for hiding two Jewish families.

The building will be constructed in Markowa, where on 24 March 1944 German military policemen murdered eight Jews from the Szall and Goldman families, as well as Józef and Wiktoria Ulm, who had been hiding them in their house. The policemen also killed Józef and Wiktoria's six children. The Yad Vashem Institute honoured the Ulm family with the title of Righteous Among the Nations. In 2004, a monument commemorating those events was unveiled.

Preparations for the construction of the Museum have been under way for several years. In 2012, the foundation act for the construction was signed. The Museum will be built in the centre of Markowa, near the town's main road and next to the Cultural Centre and thetown's open-air ethnographic museum. The Museum's construction was ordered by the Castle Museum in Łańcut. It will be financed through funds from the province budget.