Polish Ulma Family Killed by Nazis to be Beatified on Sunday | EWTN News Nightly

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A family from Poland killed for having hidden 8 Jews in their home in 1944 is due to be beatified on Sunday. For the first time, an entire family will be beatified together. Around 4 o'clock in the morning on March 24, 1944, in Markowa, a Polish city on the border of modern day Ukraine, German soldiers arrived at the Ulma family's farm – the home of Jozef and Victoria and their seven children, one of them still in Victoria's womb. The soldiers had one mission: to punish the entire Ulma family for violating the German rules against giving any help to Jews. By 1942, the Nazi occupiers of Poland had massacred or deported most of the Jewish inhabitants of Markowa, and many Polish families made the heroic decision to hide Jews in their homes. One of these was the Ulma family. In the face of Nazi persecution of Poland, and knowing that they would almost certainly be killed if the German authorities found out, the Ulma family hid their 8 Jewish friends for around a year and a half. They did so in the name of love of neighbor, required by the Gospel. EWTN Vatican Bureau Chief, Andreas Thonhauser, has more. ------------ EWTN News Nightly provides the latest news and analysis from a Catholic perspective. Join host Tracy Sabol, our Capitol Hill, White House and Rome Correspondents, as well as many other diverse guests daily, to get the latest from the U.S. and the Vatican on topics regarding our Catholic faith and interests. ------------- EWTN News Nightly airs on EWTN weekdays at 6pm & 9pm ET. ------------ Don't miss an episode of EWTN New Nightly. Get updates here: https://www.ewtn.com/tv/shows/ewtn-news-nightly ------------- Sign up today to receive the EWTN News Nightly newsletter: https://www.ewtn.com/enn ------------- Follow EWTN News Nightly on Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ewtnnewsnightly Twitter: https://twitter.com/EWTNNewsNightly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ewtnnewsnightly/ ------------- Subscribe to EWTN YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/EWTN ------------- You can support the EWTN News mission: https://bit.ly/3qDR1qf

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