Family to Be Beatified: Martyred for Hiding Jewish People from Nazis

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The Vatican is just days away from beatifying an entire family that was killed for hiding Jewish people during World War II. 

Nazis raided the home of Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma in southeast Poland in March of 1944, where they discovered eight Jews taking refuge on their farm. 

The Nazis shot the Polish couple and their seven children. 

The national correspondent for the Tablet and Crux, John Lavenburg, was in Poland as the country prepared for that beatification.

Lavenburg joined Currents News from Rome to discuss more about the process.