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1 September (Friday)

• hrs 12.00 - Holy Mass in the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

• 1.00 p.m. - official ceremonies at the Monument to Heroic Soldiers September with the participation of the Military Company Honorary from Bemów Piski

• hrs 18.00 - performance BETON of the Miniatura Municipal Theatre from Gdańsk as part of programme of Teatr Polska 2023, ticketed admission

A performance about Polish recent history, shown through the prism of the Gdańsk wave carrier. Adaptation of the award-winning novel Monika Milewska "Kite made of concrete". Stage fiction about an engineer, creators the longest Gdańsk wave carrier. This champion of communism, megalomaniac-informant And the opportunist discovers an astonishing property of his own creation: the wavemaker It bends time, allowing you to travel into the future.

Performance 16+, 18.00, auditorium, tickets to purchase at the ECK cash desk and online.

Moreover to commemorate the anniversary of the explosion, in on September 1 at 12.00, in the City of Ełk launched There will be sirens. It will be an acoustic signal, continuous lasting one Minute.

September 1, 1939 - German attack on Poland and the beginning of World War II. At 4:45 a.m., a German battleship "Schleswig-Holstein" began shelling Westerplatte, the Military Depot Transit in the Free City of Danzig, defended by the crew (approx. 200 soldiers) under the command of Major Henryk Sucharski and Capt. Franciszek Dabrowski.

Through For 7 days it heroically repelled repeated German attacks from the sea and land and air, becoming a symbol of Polish resistance.

II The world war lasted six years and claimed 72 million lives. Into At the end of the war, 61 countries took part in it, out of 67 existing at that time.