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 (born 1906). The organization had a social democratic character, it was connected with “Poalej Syjon-Prawica”. It played a dominant role in the Zionist youth movement in Poland.
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 Israel.
Israel, my great grandfather (born in 1847) married Gitla Tauba (nee Szmiga, born in 1854) and they had eleven children: Jakub Józek, Moszek, Fajbusz, Duwet, Beniamin, Joel, Mortka Lejb, Etka, Ruchla, Liba Raca and Abram Chaim. Israel was a turner, the manager of a workshop and an artist. He used to carve all kind of things from wood. Most of Israel and Gitla Tauba’s children left Poland between the two Great Wars and immigrated to the U. S. A., Argentina and England. Israel passed away probably in the late 1920s and his wife Gitla Tauba immigrated to the U. S. A. and lived near her son Moszek (later – Morris). Only Mortka Lejb, Ruchla and their families remained in Płock.
My grandfather Mortka Lejb (born in 1879) married Perla (nee Dzwonek, born in 1880 in Dobrzyń nad Wisłą). They moved to Raciąż (a small town not far from Płock) and their seven children were born there: Ryfka and her twin brother Hersz Jankief, Ruchla (Rosa Fajga), Chaja Sura, Icek, Beniamin and Israel. In the 1920’s they moved back to Płock and lived on Szeroka Street (now Kwiatka Street). Mortka Lejb was a tailor and the manager of a workshop. Icek followed his father’s trade and was a tailor too.
At that time Płock was like a microcosmos of the Jewish world and almost every Jewish ideological group or youth movement was represented there. My mother Ryfka was an active member of the “Freiheit” (“Freedom”) movement. Hence, she came to Israel as a pioneer in 1933. Two of her cousins – the daughters of her aunt Ruchla named Nauma (Neomi) and Syma also came to Israel in the 1930s. The three cousins were the only survivors of their families. All the other members of the two families were killed in the Holocaust.
Now the descendants of the Koryto family are scattered all over the world.
Pnina Stern, Israel
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 included iron axles for britzkas and carriages, chaff cutter scythes, ploughshares, ploughs, cultivator machines, harrows, as well as milk cans, automatic rakes, winnowers or economical “half an hour” ovens. The mechanics department of the company carried out repairs of locomobiles. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the factory also had a separate department for producing wheels and carts – according to data from 1934, it was the oldest cart wheel factory in Poland.
Fabiusz Margulies, after his father’s death, took over the management of the factory together with his brothers Izaak (born 1888) and Czesław (born 1887). He was also the president of the “Makabi” Jewish Gymnastics and Sports Association, which he also supported financially.
He died in the ghetto in Częstochowa in 1943.
Bibliography:
Nowak G., Wojciechowska A., Żydowski Płock – architektoniczne wizje i realizacje, Płock 2014
Przedpełski J., Stefański J., Żydzi płoccy w dziejach miasta, Płock 2012
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 […]
