In the union of this year's celebrations of the 83rd anniversary Of the outbreak of World War II, on September 1 (Thursday) in Ełk planned:

• 12:00 p.m. Holy Mass in the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Ełk
• 1:00 p.m. Celebrations at the Heroic Monument to the Soldiers of September with the participation of the Military Honorary Company from Bemowo Piski.

Moreover to commemorate the anniversary of the explosion, in on September 1 at 12.00, alarm sirens will be activated in the City of Ełk. It will be an acoustic signal, continuous ongoing one minute.

Remark! Citizens of Ukraine staying in our city and region, these are only sirens as part of the exercises, please calm down, there is no cause for concern.

September 1, 1939 - German attack on Poland and the beginning World War II. At 4:45 a.m., the German training battleship "Schleswig-Holstein" began shelling Westerplatte, the Military Depot Transit in the Free City of Gdansk, defended by the crew (about 200 soldiers) under the command of Major Henryk Sucharski and Capt. Franciszek Dabrowski. For 7 days she heroically repelled repeated attacks German from the sea, land and air, becoming a symbol of Polish resistance.

World War II lasted six years and claimed 72 million lives. Until the end of the war, it took in it the participation of 61 countries, out of 67 existing at that time.