Holocaust education conference in southeastern Poland
PR dla Zagranicy
Grzegorz Siwicki
26.06.2019 15:00
An international Holocaust education conference is being held in the southeast of Poland at a museum that documents how Poles rescued Jews during World War II.
Józef Ulma (right) and his wife Wiktoria. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain
The three-day event at the Ulma Family Museum in the village of Markowa includes debates on how education programmes should spread awareness of the role of Righteous Among the Nations, or non-Jews who offered aid to persecuted Jews during the Holocaust.
Conference participants have toured an exhibition entitled Between Life and Death: Stories of Rescue During the Holocaust, put together by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity, the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, and the Silent Heroes Memorial Center.
The exhibition presents accounts of people from Poland and nine other European countries who came to the rescue of Jews during World War II as well as accounts by those who received such help.
The museum in Markowa is named after the Polish family of Józef Ulma, his wife Wiktoria and their six children, all of whom were executed by the Germans in 1942 for sheltering Jews on their farm during the war.
In 1995, Israel’s Yad Vashem Remembrance Institute in Jerusalem recognised the Ulma couple as Righteous Among the Nations.
A beatification process for the family is under way in the Roman Catholic Church.
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