New Jewish Cemetery

The cemetery at Mickiewicza Street was founded in 1845. The last known burial on it took place in 1968. During the Second World War, the Germans devastated the area of the cemetery, and the matzevas were used to construct pavements and build stairs leading from the Dominican Hill to the Vistula bank. On February 22, 1945, the Jewish Committee was established, which in the autumn of 1946 organized an exhumation of the bodies of the Płock Jews murdered in the Imielnica ravine. The corpses were moved to the Jewish cemetery at Mickiewicza Street. On October 23, 1949, the unveiling of the monument commemorating the Jews murdered during the war took place, designed by architect engineer Arie Lejb Perelmuter. In 1967, the monument was destroyed. In the same year, the construction of a new monument began, according to the design of the artist Lucjan Kot. Near the monument, on the wall called the Wailing Wall, fragments of matzevot from the old and the new cemetery were placed. On the area of 3.2 ha, about 10 tombstones have been preserved, including Szyja Buch – a well-known Jewish activist, son of Abram Mosze and Chana Gitla, who after the war was a member of the Jewish Committee, and in 1949 one of the co-founders of the Gerszon Dua Clothing Workshop Cooperative in Płock, based in the former synagogue at Kwiatka 7 Street, and Alfred Blay – before the war, the owner of the cloth shop at Grodzka Street, since 1946 the chairman of the Jewish Committee in Płock.

Funeral in Płock, 7 April 1938 (photo from the collection of Miriam Gavish)

At the Jewish cemetery in Płock, October 17, 1937 (photo from Arie Fuks's private collection)

Ceremony at the Jewish cemetery in Płock at Mickiewicza Street, after 1949 (photo from Jakub Guterman's private collection)

One of the plaques on the back of the monument erected after the war at the Jewish cemetery in Płock (photo from the private collection of Jakub Guterman)

The ceremony of revealing the monument commemorating the victims of the Holocaust, 1949 (photo from the private collection of Hedva Segal)

The Zylber-Nisson family against the background of the monument commemorating the victims of the Holocaust in the cemetery in Płock at Mickiewicza Street (photo from the private collection of Hedva Segal)

Jakub Szulim Fuks against the background of the monument commemorating the victims of the Holocaust in the cemetery in Płock at Mickiewicza Street (photo from the private collection of Arie Fuks)

Members of the Jewish community during the ceremony at the Płock cemetery, 1946 (photo from the private collection of Arie Fuks)

Names of family members on the tables of the monument of the remembrance of the Holocaust (photo from the private collection of Hedva Segal)

Jewish cemetery at Mickiewicza St. in Płock (from the collection of Lucjan Kot)

Fragment of the monument designed by artist Lucjan Kot on the Jewish cemetery at Mickiewicza St. (from the collection of Lucjan Kot)

Gypsum model of bas-relief on the face of the monument designed by fine artist Lucjan Kot and fine artist Miroslaw Smorczewski.

Jewish cemetery at Mickiewicza St. - current state (photo by P. Dąbrowski)

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