{"id":44162,"date":"2023-03-24T14:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dignitynews.eu\/?p=44162"},"modified":"2023-03-24T14:00:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T13:00:57","slug":"president-duda-today-we-honour-our-great-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dignitynews.eu\/en\/president-duda-today-we-honour-our-great-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"President Duda: Today we honour our great heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;On the morning of 24 March 1944, in the village of Markowa near \u0141a\u0144cut, German military policemen murdered J\u00f3zef and Wiktoria Ulma and their seven children, as well as the Jews they had been hiding: Go\u0142da Gr\u00fcnfeld, Lea Didner and her daughter, and Saul Goldman and his four sons. The murderers carried out this crime in an inhumanly cruel manner. People were killed when their only &#8216;fault&#8217; was that they were Jewish. Poles also were killed, the Jewish fellow citizens\u2019 hosts and caretakers, ordinary, non-wealthy farmers who fulfilled the Christian commandment to help their neighbour in need&#8221;, wrote Polish President Andrzej Duda on the occasion of the National Day of Remembrance of Poles who rescued Jews under German occupation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the President stressed, &#8220;this noble command of the heart was followed by thousands of Poles&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Many of them paid for it with their own lives, and often with their loved ones. They paid for exercising mercy with torture, exile to a concentration camp, severe beatings, losing their life&#8217;s possessions&#8221;, Andrzej Duda stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Polish President recalled that over seven thousand of his compatriots, including J\u00f3zef and Wiktoria Ulma, were honoured with the title of Righteous Among the Nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The suffering of these silent, sometimes forgotten heroes demands dignified, lasting commemoration; the crimes of the Nazis need unequivocal moral condemnation and a just reparation&#8221;, pointed out the President.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Polish leader added that the aid that Poles gave to Jews persecuted by the German perpetrators of the Holocaust is &#8220;an important part of our historical memory&#8221;.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I have no hesitation in saying that, as a heroic example of solidarity and service to freedom, it co-creates the Polish national identity today&#8221;, said President Duda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adrian Andrzejewski<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;On the morning of 24 March 1944, in the village of Markowa near \u0141a\u0144cut, German military policemen murdered J\u00f3zef and Wiktoria Ulma and their seven children, as well as the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.4 - 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