Mayor of the City of Ełk Tomasz Andrukiewicz and the Director of the Historical Museum in Ełk, Dr. Rafał Żytyniec invite you September 17, 2024 (Tuesday) for the solemn commemoration of the 85th anniversary of the aggression of the Union Soviet Union into Poland.

Celebration program:

6:00 p.m. – Holy Mass in the Cathedral St. Adalbert in Ełk

after the Holy Mass, laying flowers and paying tribute to the Victims at the Monument of the Sign of Martyrdom of the Polish Nation dedicated to the Memory of the Murdered, Fallen and Missing and the Victims of the XX (Cathedral Square)

While the western territory Polish was attacked by German troops, from the east Poland was attacked by Soviet state. Soviet troops entered the eastern territories of II Rzeczpospolita at dawn on 17 September 1939, violating international law.

Soviet aggression accelerated the fall and partition of our country, which at that moment irretrievably lost its territory in the Eastern Borderlands. Poland and its citizens found themselves in trap. Deportations to Siberia, persecution of Poles, crime against Polish officers in Katyn and the subsequent dependence on Moscow were the aftermath of the German and allied Red Army on our country.