For if to others, indeed, they seem punished,
yet is their hope full of immortality, Wisdom, 3:4
'Death for Humanity. Ulmowie – Polish Samaritans'
a very moving and important exhibition was opened in
https://nitter.cz/Europarl_EN
in Strasbourg, thanks to
https://nitter.cz/BeataKempa_MEP
.
On March 24, 1944, during World War Il, Germans murdered the entire Polish Ulma family, along with the Jews they were sheltering — the Didners, the Grünfelds and the Goldmans.
Markowa, the place where this tragic history happened, is situated in South-Eastern Poland, approximately one hundred and ninety miles away from Warsaw. During the interwar period (1918— 1939), the village was home to 4,500 inhabitants, including 120 Jews. A vigorous rural movement in the area resulted in the formation of a local elite — farmers open to the world, utilizing modern farming techniques, but at the same time deeply attached to their Catholic faith and the commandments of the Gospel. It was in that spiritual climate that Wiktoria Niemczak and Józef Ulma were married in 1935. They soon had many children. Apart from cultivating the field, Józef enjoyed photography, gardening, silkworm rearing, building machinery and engaging in social activism in the cooperative movement, the Association of Catholic Youth and the Wici Rural Youth Alliance of the Republic of Poland, which was associated with the rural political movement. Wiktoria, for her part, tended to the house and their six children (Stasia, Basia, Władzio, Franuś, Antoś and Marysia).
In 1942, the Germans occupying Poland murdered the majority of Markowa's Jews. On December 13, 1942, they coerced same of the village's inhabitants, on pain of death, to search for Jews in hiding. The next day, 25 captured victims were murdered by the German military police. In spite of these tragic events — fully aware their lives were at stake and they were risking executio…

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/AnnaFotyga_PE/status/1747639055204905458#m

[2024-01-17 15:16 UTC]