“Samaritans from Markowa”
The exposition will present photos and documents depicting the family, social and cultural life of the Ulma family from Markowa near Łańcut.
The visitors will also be able to see the map of Markowa, presenting the places where Jews had lived before the Second World War, as well as Polish houses where Jews were hidden during the occupation.
The exhibition shows the life of the Ulmas as it was before the war: agricultural works, activity in the local dairy cooperative and the local theatre team.
Visitors will also able to see photos of Jewish inhabitants of Markowa, announcements of the German authorities from the time of the occupation and the diploma confirming his title “Righteous Among the Nations”.
The exhibition has already been presented in Warsaw. In the spring of the next year it will visit Rome, where it will be presented at the Pontifical Lateran University.
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 inthe village of Markowa near Łańcut until 2013.
