New Museum Honors Poles Killed for Helping Jews in Holocaust

A museum honoring hundreds of Poles killed for helping Jews during the Holocaust is set to be formally opened Thursday by the nation's president, Andrzej Duda. The Ulma Family Museum of Poles Saving Jews, in the village of Markowa, opens at the site in southern Poland where Germans killed an entire family for sheltering Jews in 1944. The victims included Jozef Ulma and his wife Wiktoria, who was seven months pregnant, their six small children, and eight Jews in hiding.   It is...

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