{"id":298649,"date":"2023-09-14T18:44:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T23:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=298649"},"modified":"2023-09-20T13:14:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T18:14:20","slug":"nazi-soldiers-murdered-preborn-baby-sainthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/nazi-soldiers-murdered-preborn-baby-sainthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Nazi soldiers murdered a family with their preborn baby. Now they are all on the path to sainthood."},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Sunday, nine members of the Ulma family, including a preborn baby, were beatified<\/a> in their Polish hometown of Markowa, where on March 24, 1944, they were killed by Nazis. The family was murdered along with the eight Jewish individuals they were hiding in their home.<\/p>\n

No regard for human life\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Nazis’ discrimination and hatred<\/a> was not limited to the Jewish people. They aimed to “improve” the genetic makeup by eradicating people they deemed inferior: people who were disabled, Black, Roma, Slavic, and, of course, Jewish. They also killed Polish people and those in the Soviet Union in order to expand the German empire. Millions of people were deemed unwanted and unworthy by the Nazis, and through the use of skilled marketing, they convinced millions of Germans to either turn a blind eye or help to carry out genocide.<\/p>\n

Adolf Hitler created a Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda that worked to alter the opinions and behaviors of German people, including the passive acceptance of the persecutions. The Holocaust Memorial Trust explained<\/a> that Nazi propaganda painted genocide as the restoration of order by the Nazi government. Nazi films portrayed Jewish people as “subhuman” and newspapers maintained an antisemitic viewpoint. All the while, those put in concentration camps were forced to send notes home lying that they were being treated well.<\/p>\n

In the village of Markowa, Catholic couple J\u00f3zef (44) and Wiktoria Ulma (31) had a farm that included vegetables, fruit, beekeeping, and silkworm breeding. J\u00f3zef also enjoyed photography and Wiktoria was part of the local theater. After nine years of marriage, they had seven children, including one preborn child.<\/p>\n

In their town were about 20 Jewish families. According to the Institute of National Remembrance<\/a>, by July of 1942, local Jewish families were being ‘hunted’ by the Nazis.<\/p>\n

“The Ulma Family was known throughout the village as a place where those in need can turn for help, which brought two Jewish families to seek shelter with them in 1942,” Fr. Michael Niemczak, a relative of the Ulma family told Live Action News.<\/p>\n

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