Final phase of the beatification process of the Ulma family
The information concerning the phase of the beatification process was transmitted to the public opinion by Rev. Józef Bar, delegate of the Przemyśl archbishop. The diocesan part of the process has ended.
The materials concerning the Ulmas were transferred to the Pelplin diocese, which is the Polish coordinator of the common beatification process of about 100 martyrs, victims of Nazism from the times of the Second World War. From Pelplin, the documents will be sent to Rome.
Rev. Bar informed that “cases of martyrs are settled quite fast”. The documentation collected by the dioceses will be analyzed. In case of martyr’s deaths there is no “problem of proving miracles” – explained the priest.
In the fall of 1942 Józef Ulma and his wife Wiktoria née Niemczak, living with their six children, were asked for help by the Jewish Szall family – a father who was cattle merchant before the war, and his four sons.
The Ulmas took them in. Shortly after that they also gave shelter to Gołda Goldman and her sister Lajka with her daughter.
A Blue Policeman, Włodzimierz Leś, denounced the Ulmas. On March 24th, 1944 German soldiers murdered the eight Jews and the Poles who were hiding them: Józef Ulma, his wife, who was in the last month of her pregnancy, and their six children: Staś, Basia, Władzio, Franuś, Antoś and Marysia. The oldest of them was 8 years old.
Józef and Wiktoria Ulma were honored with the title of the Righteous Among the Nations in 1985. More about the Ulma family
The Ulma Family Museum of Poles Saving Jews in the Podkarpacie Region will be created in the village of Markowa near Łańcut until 2013.
