Vatican honours Polish family murdered by Nazis for sheltering Jews

Papal envoy Cardinal Marcello Semeraro said the Ulma family had ‘paid the highest price of martyrdom’ (AP)

The Vatican has made the unprecedented move of beatifying an entire Polish family for their “gesture of hospitality and care” in sheltering Jewish people during the Second World War.

The family-of-nine — a married couple and their small children — were murdered by the Nazis in 1944 after they were apparently betrayed.