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Why is the Ulma baby, who was unbaptized, also considered a martyr?

Wiktoria Ulma with six of her children. / The Ulma Family Museum of Poles Saving Jews in World War II. CNA Staff, Sep 14, 2023 / 12:22 pm (CNA). All nine members of the Ulma family, who were murdered by the Nazi regime for sheltering two Jewish...

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A New Mexico priest with Polish roots and familial connection to the martyrs is on his way to Poland to celebrate the historic occasion.

Father Witold Burda, interviewed for this article, is the postulator of the canonization cause of the Ulma family, a Polish family murdered by the Nazis for hiding Jews during World War II.

Either Jozef or Wiktoria must have stopped one day to underline these verses, which defined their lives and deaths. We want to live this way, says postulator.

Members of the Ulma family at their home and farm. On March 24, 1944, all nine members of the Ulma family were killed by the Nazis for hiding a Jewish family in their home in Poland, including a child still in the womb. / Credit: Father Witold B...

The entire Ulma family will be beatified on Sept. 10 in a ceremony in Markowa, the village in southeast Poland where the Ulmas were executed.