At Niepodległości Street in Wyszogród, there is a Jewish cemetery founded in the first half of the 19th century. During World War II, it was completely devastated by the Germans, who used tombstones to build roads and pavements. After the war, a monument commemorating the […]
The baroque tenement house, in the type associated with the northern circle, was erected in the third quarter of the 17th century. Since 1850, the owner of the property was a grain merchant, Ojzer Lewita. In the years 1852-1855 and 1857-1862 he tried to sell […]
On November 16, 1930, a branch of the “Frajhajt” Cultural and Educational Association in Poland was established in Płock. The founders of the branch were Mojżesz Zander (born 1905), Toba Nasielska (born 1908), Lejb Licht (born 1909), Symcha Guterman (born in 1903) and Szlama Lipner […]
Samuel Nadel was born in a large Jewish family as the son of the tailor Nuta Wolf Nadel (1815-1879) and Sura Tema nee Zylberman (born 1825). The Nadel family lived on Kolegialna 12 Street – in a tenement house, the owner of which in the […]
Today, the first post-war March of Remembrance in Gostynin took place, in which the descendants of the Gostynin and Gąbin Jews, along with the town’s inhabitants, symbolically commemorated the victims of the Holocaust. The event was accompanied by the unveiling of a plaque commemorating Józefa […]
My great-great grandfather Beniamin Koryto (born in 1802 in Sochaczew) and my great-great grandmother Tyla (nee Sierota, born in 1804 in Służewo) were the first of the Koryto family to settle down in Płock. They had six children: Joel, Sura Łaja, Ryfka, Hersz, Ruchel and […]
Józef Rogozik was born in 1875 in Międzyrzecz, as son of Chaim and Ruchla. He was a co-founder (in 1914) of the Committee for Aid to Jews in Płock and the Society for Free Medical Assistance to Poor Jews. In 1916 he was elected to […]
On Monday, May 20, the descendants of the Gostynin and Gąbin Jews, the Mayor of Gostynin and the Multicultural Gostynin initiative invite you to a march commemorating Gostynin Jews who perished in the Holocaust: “Together with a group of guests from Israel, the United States […]
Fabiusz Margulies (1892-1943) – entrepreneur, head of the Agricultural Equipment Factory in Płock. He was the son of Maurycy Margulies (1856-1933) who came from Łódź and Frajda nee Ejzenberg (born in 1861). The headquarters of the Margulies company was located at Tumska street. Its offer […]
Icek Nelkin (born 1886) together with his wife Małka nee Finkelsztejn (born 1877) and children: Dwojra (born 1911), Mordka (born 1915), Anna (born 1918), Maurycy (born 1921) and Leonard (born 1924) lived at 8 Grodzka St. in Płock before the war. Icek was a trader […]
