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Markowa
Markowa is a Polish village near Lancut. During World War II many families hid their Jewish neighbours to help them survive the Holocaust. Now it is estimated that at least 17 Jews survived the war in Markowa.
7 members of Weltz family were hidden in a barn of Dorota and Antoni Szylar. Jakub Einhorn were hidden by Jan and Weronika Przybylak and Jakub Lorbenfeld family were hidden by Michal Bar.
2 girls from Reisenbach family were initially hidden by Stanislaw Kielar, before joining the rest of 5 members family in the house of Julia and Józef Bar.
Tragedy
On March 24, 1944 a patrol of German police came to the house of Wiktoria and Józef Ulm, where they found 8 Jews: Szall and Goldman families. At first the Germans executed all the Jews. Then they shot down pregnant Wiktoria and her husband. When 6 children begun to scream at the scene of dead bodies of their parents, Jozef Kokott, a German policeman (Volksdeutsche from Sudetenland) killed them.
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