New plans concerning the project of the future Ulma Family Museum of Poles Saving Jews in the Podkarpacie Region have been presented recently. The museum will be located in Markowa, where on March 24th, 1944 German soldiers murdered eight Jews and the Poles who were hiding them: Józef Ulma, his wife, who was in the last month of her pregnancy, as well as their six children.

The Museum, commemorating the Ulma family, will be a modern institution, using the newest multimedia technologies. The interactivity of the exposition will be a very important factor – a meticulous reconstruction of the realities of the time of the Second World War is supposed to help the visitors to understand, at least to some extent, the conditions in which the Ulmas and the hiding Jews had been living. In the building of the future Museum – apart from a showroom, a research office and a lecture hall in which film screenings will be organized – the Ulmas house will be reconstructed. It is possible thanks to the fact that about 800 photographs taken by Józef Ulma have survived the war: they depict the interior of the house. The Ulma Family Museum of Poles Saving Jews in the Podkarpacie Region will be about 500 square meters in area. Temporary and permanent exhibitions will reveal to the visitors everyday life of Jews and Poles during the Nazi occupation. The construction works will start in 2011. This investment will be financed from the budget of the Marshal’s Office of the Podkarpackie Province. More about the competition for the museum project on the website of the Łańcut Castle Museum.

Józef Ulma and his wife Wiktoria were honored with the title of the Righteous Among the Nations in 1985.