On the occasion of the 104th anniversary of the defense of Płock against the Bolsheviks, we recall the Jews of Płock who joined the Polish Army as volunteers during the Bolshevik invasion in 1920 As Szmul Grojnem Wasserman, born in 1897, wrote: “In July 1920 […]
On Saturday, March 23, at 6 p.m., the Nobiscum Foundation invites everyone to join us at the Darmstadt House at 8 Old Market Square for the premiere of our latest publication, this time addressed to younger readers – the book “Adam and his Płock” by […]
The cold winter of 1941. Against the background of a neglected building on Kwiatka Street in Płock, six people stand in the snow. Chawa Papierczyk – a young woman with dark, smoothly combed hair, parted in the middle. A smile appears on her face. All […]
Thanks to co-funding of the City of Płock, this autumn our new guidebook by Gabriela Nowak-Dąbrowska will be published, this time dedicated to Kwiatka Street! We are preparing the publication in connection with the 150th anniversary of birth of Józef Kwiatek – a socialist activist, […]
On January 27, on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in 1945, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day is held. This day was designated by the UN General Assembly on November 1, 2005. For many years, the Shalom Foundation has been inviting people […]
Exactly 150 years ago, on January 22, 1874, born in Płock was Józef Kwiatek – socialist activist, journalist and the patron of the street that was once the heart of the Jewish district. His biography can be found on the JewishPlock.eu website: https://jewishplock.eu/en/jozef-kwiatek-en/
On October 14, 1943, an uprising of prisoners led by Aleksander “Sasza” Peczerski broke out in the German Nazi extermination camp in Sobibór. One of the participants of the rebellion was Moshe Bahir (Szklarek) from Płock (1927-2002). As he recalled years later, the Sobibór camp […]
Our exhibition “Szenwic. The story of one family” is now available online! The exhibition prepared by the Nobiscum Foundation presents the history of members of a Jewish family associated with Płock since the beginning of the 19th century. The exhibition includes family photographs and documents […]
The Nobiscum Foundation would like to invite everyone to read a new guidebook that we have published. The publication entitled “In the footsteps of Jewish artists from Płock” by Gabriela Nowak-Dąbrowska, published thanks to the co-funding of the City of Płock, is dedicated to Jewish […]
We are pleased to inform you that our new publication – “Jewish women of pre-war Płock. Part I” – is now available (in Polish). Full of energy, strength, passion and determination, women have always played an important role in the history of Płock. Many of […]
