Employees of the Chair and Department of Forensic Medicine at the Medical University in Wrocław have exhumed and examined the remains of the Ulma family from the village of Markowa. The work confirmed historical reports of the martyrdom of the couple and their six children.

The forensic and anthropological examinations were conducted by Agata Thannhäuser, a forensic anthropologist, and Dr Łukasz Szleszkowski, a forensic medic from the Chair and Department of Forensic Medicine, in cooperation with the Commemoration of Struggle and Martyrdom Office of the Institute of National Remembrance. The activities were connected with the beatification process of the Ulma family.

Józef and Wiktoria Ulma hid two Jewish families in their house: five men, two women and a child, probably from the end of December 1942 until March 1944. According to the law in force in the occupied territories, they faced the death penalty for it. After a period of about a year and a half, they were denounced by an officer of the “blue police” from Łańcut, who collaborated with the occupier.

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