SAINT
saint-jozef-ulma
A saint of the Catholic Church
biography
The Ulma family or Józef and Wiktoria Ulma with Seven Children were a Polish Catholic family in Markowa, Poland, during the Nazi German occupation in World War II 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.
feast Day
07-07
death Date
24 March 1944
canonization Status
servant_of_god
feast Month
7
feast Day Of Month
7