Ulma Family (1944) – Markowa

Fact of the Polish figure „Rightous Among the Nations”

Part of the „The Holocaust” topic

Józef and Wiktoria Ulma were a married couple living in the village of Markowa (former Lviv Voivodeship). Probably in late 1942, the family provided shelter to eight Jews in their own house. Unfortunately, they were denounced to the Germans and on March 24, 1944, five German gendarmes and several navy-blue policemen arrived to Markowa. They shot the Jews hidden by Ulmas, and then Józef, Wiktoria, who was pregnant at the time, and their children. In 1995 Wiktoria and Józef Ulma were posthumously honored with the title of Righteous Among the Nations. In 2023, following a nearly 20-year-long process of beatification, the Ulma family, including also the 7 children of Wiktoria and Józef, was officially beatified by the Catholic Church. Nowadays, in Markowa there is also the Ulma Family Museum of Poles Saving Jews in World War II.