79. they commemorated the anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising yesterday Residents and representatives of the local government of Ełk, parliamentarians, representatives of municipal institutions. About At 17:00 they were launched alarm sirens, was is a continuous signal lasting 1 minute.

After Flowers were laid to the playing of the anthem at the monument "Fallen for Free and Independent Poland" in the Park Solidarity.

Rebellion Warsaw

1 August 1944 at 5 p.m. the Warsaw Uprising broke out lasting 63 days. The insurgents fought for over two months with better trained and equipped German troops. About 16,000 insurgents were killed there, about 150,000 civilians, 3.7 thousand soldiers of the 1. Polish Army and 9,000 soldiers German. After the end of the fighting, the civilian population was displaced, and The city was planned. The destruction was, among others: The Old Town, the Royal Castle and thousands of other cultural goods.