Poland marks National Remembrance Day for Poles who Saved Jews
March 24 was chosen because it is the date when Nazis murdered the Ulma family for hiding Jews.
Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki visits the Ulma Family Museum of Poles Who Saved Jews during WWII in Markowa, Poland February 2, 2018(photo credit: JUSTYNA PAWLAK / REUTERS)ByTAMARA ZIEVEUpdated: Poland on Saturday observed its first-ever National Remembrance Day for Poles Who Saved Jews during World War II.The new national holiday was the initiative of Polish President Andrzej Duda.Earlier this month the senate approved a resolution making March 24 the date on which to mark it, because that is when, in 1944, Nazis murdered the Ulma family – Józef, Wiktoria, and their six children – in Markowa, in southeastern Poland. The family had been hiding Jews, who were also killed that day.