The letter found is important, the archivist said, because it not only details Nazi crimes at the Belzec extermination camp in 1942, but it refers to other reports and mentions Auschwitz, suggesting that the letter is probably part of much more correspondence
"In the martyrdom of the new Blessed, a particularly evocative role is played by the tiny child that Wiktoria carried in her womb, coming into the world during the painful moments of her mother's slaughter," Cardinal Marcello Semeraro said in his beatification
In one of the most significant moments in Polish post-war history, the Ulma family was beatified in Markowa Sept. 10. "I think it will only get me at night, when I come back home, because now I still can't believe it," Jerzy
Eight hundred unique photographs of the Ulma family, beatified on September 10, remain precious memorabilia in family and state archives. They tell a story of the joys and hardships of their everyday life. But they also tell the story of those they
When the Ulma family beatification takes place Sept. 10 in Markowa, Poland, it will be an unprecedented event in many respects. For the first time in church history, a child born during the murder of the mother will be beatified, along with
Speaking at the Sept. 3 unveiling of a memorial in Markowa, a descendant of the eight fugitive Jews shot with the Ulma family, Ellen Goldman, said she had learned of her cousins' fate only "many years later" while living in New York,
For Father Witold Burda, the postulator of the canonization cause of the Ulma family, the last six years of his life have been a unique journey. In a conversation with OSV News, Father Burda shares the joys and challenges leading to the
When Józef and Wiktoria Ulma are beatified with their children Sept. 10, eight decades after they were shot by Nazis for sheltering Jews in their farmhouse near the village of Markowa in southeastern Poland, it will be a graphic reminder of the
The vice president of the Warsaw-based Institute of National Remembrance, Mateusz Szpytma learned through a family photo album of the Ulmas and the tragic deaths of the family and the Jews they hid in 1944 during World War II. Szpytma's grandmother, Maria,
Aug. 15 marks the 300th anniversary of the coronation of the image of Our Lady of Koden in Poland. Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz as papal legate imposed new crowns, blessed by Pope Francis, on the image.