Appeal to commemorate the victims of the tragedy caused by both totalitarianisms that have occurred in our region, in particular in the years 1939-1956 issued the Sejmik of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, taken by resolution of 26 May 2020. It is about 30,000 prisoners and several thousand murdered, defenceless civilians, prisoners of war, forced prisoners workers, deportees, Polish citizens and foreigners.

January 18 is a date that is on the Day of Remembrance of the Victims Both Totalitarianisms in Warmia and Mazury were chosen not accidentally. Exactly On this day in 1945, the camp passed from the hands of the retreating Nazis into the hands of the Soviets and the NKVD. The day is celebrated for the third time in our region.

Both The totalitarian systems – Nazism and Communism – have left their mark on history Warmia and Mazury, and therefore Ełk. See what the Historical Museum in Ełk offers.

About Nazi times in our city tells a film made by the Museum Historical in Ełk based on the book by Michał Olszewski and Rafał Żytyniec " Elk. A walker through an unusual city" (available at the MHE ticket office, on allegro or in Ełk bookstores). The video is available on the YouTube channel under Link: White spots, or Elk in Third Reich. The dark page of the history of our city are also Stalinist times. About them tells the film also made on the basis of the above-mentioned "Spacerownik", available at the link: Ełk in Stalinist times.

On MHE's YouTube channel also includes recordings of open and open lectures museum lesson of Dr. Stefan M. Marcinkiewicz (from the Institute of Political Science UWM in Olsztyn), namely: "Yakov Jughashvili (1907-1943). Unknown episode in Oflag 56 (Bogusze/Prostki)" and 'Concentration camp as an instrument of terror and extermination. An example of a Nazi POW camp in Boguszach/Prostkach (1941-1945)".

Worth also listen to the memories of Teresa Ostrowska, President of the Regional Association of Polish Children of War, entitled "War through the eyes of a child", available on page: https://muzeum.elk.pl/aktualnosci/wojna-oczami-dziecka/2494/