Saul Goldman was a butcher and livestock trader. He lived in Łańcut in the south of Poland with his wife Golda and their four sons Baruch (born 1911), Mechel (born 1914), Joachim (born 1919), and Mojżesz Fejwel (born 1921). Goldman occasionally traveled to the neighboring village of Markowa on business, which was how he knew the farmer Józef Ulma. In September 1939, Łańcut was occupied by German troops. The Goldmans and other Jewish families from Łańcut and the surrounding area were now subject to persecution.
From the fall of 1942, Goldman and his four sons were able to hide in the attic in the home of Józef Ulma and his wife Wiktoria. During the day, the men helped with sawing and chopping wood, and with processing furs. The Ulmas sold the results to help feed the persecuted family.
In 1944 the Ulmas were denounced. German and Polish police officers searched the house on March 24, 1944, and found the people they had hidden. Saul Goldman, his sons, and three Jewish women were shot dead, along with Józef Ulma, the pregnant Wiktoria Ulma, and their six children.
