Markowa
Museums, ethnographic parks
Among the vast fields of the Rzeszów Plateau, there is the large village of Markowa, famous for vegetable crops. In the open-air museum, many wooden objects related to agriculture were gathered in a small area.
The most interesting buildings are: Kmieć cottage, a barn, a windmill, a forge, an oil mill and a rick. There is a chamber decorated with fire fighting equipment, such as pumps and fire engines. Another attraction is the Ulma Family Carpathian Museum of Poles Saving Jews. The main idea behind the creation of the museum was to commemorate the heroic deeds of the Ulma family, living in Markowa during World War II. In 1942, Józef Ulma decided to hide two Jewish families from Łańcut and Markowa. In 1944, the Nazis caught and murdered the Jews in hiding. Józef Ulma was killed, as was his wife Victoria, who was in an advanced stage of pregnancy, and their six children. This crime has become a symbol of the aid Poles gave to the Jews. The bodies of the Ulma family members were exhumed and transferred to the Cemetery for Victims of Nazism in Jagiełła-Niechciałki.
