The Catholic Church beatified on Sunday a Polish family of nine, including a new-born baby, who died at the hands of Nazi Germans during World War Two for sheltering a Jewish family from the Holocaust.
The beatification service for Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma and their seven children was held in the southeastern Polish town of Markowa where they died in March 1944 at the hands of German military police. Cardinal Marcello Semeraro read a letter from Pope Francis during a mass attended by Poland’s president and prime minister, among others.
Jews from across the continent were sent to be killed at death camps built and operated by Germans in occupied Poland – home to Europe’s biggest Jewish community at the time – including Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor. The Ulma family has been at the heart of the nationalist Law and Justice government’s efforts to highlight the courage of those thousands of Poles who had sought to help Jews escape the Holocaust.
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