Opening of Museum of Poles Rescuing Jews
The Museum of Poles rescuing Jewish compatriots has been opened on March 17th 2016, in the village of Markowa.
The ceremony was attended by Polish President Andrzej Duda and MFA Secretary of State Jan Dziedziczak.
The Ulma Family Museum is the first institution to commemorate Poles rescuing Jews.
Family Ulma from Markowa. Polish Righteous among the Nations
The video tells the story of the Ulma Family whose all members were executed by Germans during WWII in occupied Poland for saving Jews. Learn more and please share.
Józef and Wiktoria Ulma, a Polish husband and wife, living in Markowa in south-eastern Poland during the Nazi German occupation in World War II, were the Righteous who attempted to rescue Polish Jewish families by hiding them in their own home during the Holocaust. They and their children were summarily executed on 24 March 1944 for doing so.
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Architectural 3D Video Projection Mapping of The Ulma Family Museum of Poles Saving Jews
The Path of the Righteous’ is a memorial tribute to the heroic stance of the Poles who helped the Jews during German occupation, risking their own lives and the lives of their families. The meaningful 3D projection mapping based on the Ulma's story was prepared to celebrate the first anniversary of the museum on March 17, 2017.
Józef and Wiktoria Ulma lived in the village of Markowa in what before the war was the Lwowskie province, and now is the Podkarpackie region. The village had four and a half thousand residents. During the German occupation, most probably in late 1942, despite poverty and risk, the Ulmas gave shelter to eight Jews: Saul Goldman and his four sons whose names are unknown (in Łańcut, they were referred to as the Szalls), and two daughters and a grand-daughter of Chaim Goldman from Markowa – Lea (Layka) Didner with her daughter (name unknown) and Genia (Golda) Grünfeld. Józef and the men he was hiding were tanners. The Ulmas were probably denounced to the Germans for harbouring Jews by Włodzimierz Leś, a navy-blue policeman from Łańcut. On March 24, 1944, in the morning, five German gendarmes and several navy-blue policemen arrived in front of the house of the Ulmas. They were commanded by Lt. Eilert Dieken. They first shot the Jews, and next Józef and Wiktoria (who was in the seventh month of pregnancy). Then, Dieken decided to kill the children. Within a few minutes, seventeen people lost their lives (including the baby whom Wiktoria started giving birth to at the moment of the execution). In 1995, Wiktoria and Józef Ulma were posthumously awarded the “Righteous Among the Nations” title.
The building of the Museum of Poles Saving Jews was designed by Nizio Design International – a company acclaimed for its modern museum architecture projects. The structure of The Ulma Family Museum's building is minimalistic and austere, and its shape draws on a primitive house. The exhibition area is 117.3 m². In its centre, a 5 x 8 m glass cubicle is located which acts as the 1:1 mock-up of the Ulmas’ house. The original house was standing elsewhere and no longer exists.
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'The Path of the Righteous' written and directed by the visual artist Marika Wato was inspired by 'Visions of the Hereafter' by Hieronymus Bosch including two parts of the polyptych: 'Terrestrial Paradise' and 'Ascent of the Blessed'.
CREDITS:
Produced by The Ulma Family Museum of Poles Saving Jews in World War II, Anna Stróż, Jakub Pawłowski, Marika Wato
Managed by University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow
Written and directed by Marika Wato
Lyrics by Henryk Jachimowski
Music by Agnieszka Kowalczyk-Krzysiek with band
Sound design by Tomek Kubiak, Michał Braszak
Performed by Agnieszka Kowalczyk-Krzysiek, Witek Góral, Michał Braszak, Rafał Gęborek, Mieczysław Litwiński, Gertruda Szymańska
3D animation by Paweł Weremiuk, Wojciech Brzozowski, Jakub Hader, Dawid Ryś
Art directed by Andrzej Głowacki
Ulma Family In MEMORIAM. Polish Righteous among the Nations (p.I)
PAMIĘĆ / MEMORY -- -- Servants of God Józef and Wiktoria Ulma, a Polish husband and wife, living in Markowa near Rzeszów in south-eastern Poland during the Nazi German occupation in World War II, were the Righteous who attempted to rescue Polish Jewish families by hiding them in their own home during the Holocaust. They and their children were summarily executed on 24 March 1944 for doing so.
At the onset of World War II, Józef Ulma (born in 1900) was a prominent citizen in the village of Markowa: a librarian, a photographer, active in social life and the local Catholic Youth Association. He was an educated fruit grower and a bee-keeper. His wife Wiktoria (born Wiktoria Niemczak in 1912), was a homemaker. The Ulmas had six children: Stanisława, age 8, Barbara, age 7, Władysław, age 6, Franciszek, age 4, Antoni, age 3 and Maria, age 2. Another child was due to be born just days after the family's summary execution on 24 March 1944.
In the summer and autumn of 1942, the Nazi police deported several Jewish families of Markowa to their deaths as part of the German Final solution to the Jewish question.[4] Only those who were hidden in Polish peasants' homes survived. Eight Jews found shelter with the Ulmas: six members of the Szall (Szali) family from Łańcut including father, mother and four sons, as well as the two daughters of Chaim Goldman, Golda and Layka.[5] Józef Ulma put all eight Jews in the attic. They learned to help him with supplementary jobs while in hiding, to ease the incurred expenses.
In the early morning hours of 24 March 1944 a patrol of German police from Łańcut under Lieutenant Eilert Dieken came to the Ulmas' house which was on the outskirts of the village. They were informed ahead of time about the Jews in hiding by Włodzimierz Leś – a member of the Polish Blue Police – who was Ukrainian himself and who knew the Szall family from Łańcut and who took over their property there.[4] The Germans surrounded the house and caught all eight Jews belonging to the Szall and Goldman families. They shot them in the back of the head according to eyewitness Edward Nawojski and others, who were ordered to look at the executions. Then the German gendarmes killed the pregnant Wiktoria and her husband, so that the villagers would see what punishment awaited them for hiding Jews. The six children began to scream at the sight of their parents' bodies. After consulting with his superior, 23-year-old Jan Kokott, a Czech Volksdeutscher from Sudetenland serving with the German police, shot three or four of the Polish children while other Polish children were murdered by the remaining gendarmes. Within several minutes 17 people were killed.
The names of the other Nazi executioners are also known due to their frequent presence in the village (Eilert Dieken, Michael Dziewulski and Erich Wilde). The village Vogt (Polish: Wójt) Teofil Kielar was ordered to bury the victims with the help of other witnesses. He asked the German commander whom he had known from prior inspections and food acquisitions, why the children were also killed. Dieken answered in German, So that you would not have any problems with them.[5] On 11 January 1945, in defiance of the Nazi prohibition, relatives of the Ulmas exhumed the bodies to bury them in the cemetery, and found out that Wiktoria's seventh child was almost born in the grave pit of its parents.
On 13 September 1995, Józef and Wiktoria Ulma were posthumously bestowed the titles of Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. Their medals of honor were presented to Józef's surviving brother, Władysław Ulma. Their certificate informs that they tried to save Jews at the risk of their lives, but fails to mention that they died for them, as noted in the book Godni synowie naszej Ojczyzny.
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Music: Stolen Memories from Schindler's List /John Williams (1993), Universal Pictures Film Music.
Without a Doubt - The Story of Franciszek Pasławski
Servants of God - Marking the Opening of “The Museum of Poles Saving Jews in World War II”, Markowa, Poland. In honor of martyrs Józef & Wiktoria Ulma of Markowa, and many other Righteous Among the Nations who risked their lives to save Jews in Poland during the Holocaust.
Event held Mar 17, 2016 at Congregation Habonim, Toronto. Sponsored by the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland.
Franciszek Pasławski, at the time of the event, was 93 years of age, and was the last man, as far as known, designated as one of the Righteous Among the Nations, living in Canada.
For many decades he was assisted by The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous ( an organization that provides financial support to aged and needy non-Jews who rescued Jews during the Holocaust and preserves their legacy through a national education program. He passed away in his sleep in September of 2019 at 97 years of age.
The music is from André Rieu performing the Love theme from Romeo and Juliet, taken from the DVD André Rieu - Romantic Moments
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