In 1940, the Germans established a ghetto in Warsaw, where over 400,000 Jews were imprisoned. Tens of thousands of people have died from and disease, and hundreds of thousands were deported to the death camp in Treblinka.

Mainly young people and people in the strength of the ghetto remained in the ghetto age, most often without families. In the face of hopelessness and dramatic conditions the idea of armed resistance was born among the young generation of Jews.

On April 19, 1943, on the eve of Pesach, German troops supported by tanks and armored cars entered the ghetto, to finally eliminate them. About 300-500 members stood against them Jewish Combat Organization.

As a result of the fighting in the ghetto, they were killed and murdered about 12,000 Jews. Most of the 60,000 people who were in the hospital at the time Majdanek concentration camp and the concentration camps at Majdanek and the work in Poniatowa, Trawniki and Budzyń.

On April 19, 2024, we commemorate the 82nd anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. On this occasion, the Mayor of Ełk, Tomasz Andrukiewicz, submitted a A bouquet of daffodils under the plaque commemorating the resting place of Ełk Jewish community. In this place there was a Jewish cemetery founded in 1837.

Why daffodils? One of the survivors of the Warsaw Marek Edelman, the last commander of the Jewish Combat Organization. Every year on April 19, on the anniversary of the uprising, he received a bouquet of yellow Flowers. The daffodil has become a symbol of respect and remembrance of the uprising.