JewishPlock.eu is entering its eighth year! Family albums, biographies, places connected with the Jewish community of Płock, films, exhibitions, databases, and online projects through which we aim to commemorate the history of Płock’s Jews. You will find all of this on our website, which was […]
The Nobiscum Foundation invites everyone to the exhibition “For you, unforgettable…” commemorating the 85th anniversary of the deportation of Jews from the Ghetto in Płock. The exhibition opening will take place on Friday, February 20th, at 12:00 PM at the State Archives in Płock, 9b […]
The newest guidebook published by the Nobiscum Foundation will premiere on December 12, 2025. Gabriela Nowak-Dąbrowska’s book, “In the Footsteps of Adam Neuman-Nowicki,” is being published thanks to co-funding from the Municipality of Płock.
We invite you to the premiere event on December 12th at 5:00 PM at the Darmstadt House at 8 Old Market Square. Copies of the guidebook will be available free of charge that day!
The author describes her work as follows:
The idea of creating a guidebook to places connected with the life of Adam Neuman-Nowicki (1925–2021) arose from several projects implemented by the Nobiscum Foundation, including the publication “Out of Oblivion: Jewish Families of Pre-War Płock,” dedicated to the descendants of Płock Jews, and “Adam and his Płock,” based on Adam’s memoirs and illustrated by our dear Yaakov Guterman.
This year marks the centenary of the birth of Adam – the author of the extraordinary book “Struggle for Life,” published in Poland in 2008 and which served as the inspiration for this publication. Could there be a better time for its premiere?
In this guidebook, I aim to highlight over 30 locations connected with the lives of Adam and his family in pre-war Płock, which he mentions in his book “Struggle for Life.” These include buildings that can still be found throughout the city, but also places that no longer exist, such as the Great Synagogue on Synagogalna Street, where his parents, Mojsze Szlama Neuman and Frymeta née Goldkind, entered into a religious marriage, and the Jewish Coeducational Humanities High School at 28 Kolegialna Street, where Adam’s aunt, Łucja (Sara Lea) Goldkind, was professionally involved.
This publication is my personal expression of tribute and memory to a man whose life, as written in the foreword to the English edition of the book “Struggle for life During the Nazi Occupation of Poland” (New York 1998), is both a lesson and an inspiration to others.
What was interwar Płock like through the eyes of a young Jewish boy? How did he spend his free time? Where did he study? Where did his loved ones live? Which places were particularly memorable to him? What is their history? I invite you to follow Adam Neuman-Nowicki’s footsteps through Płock. I hope it will be a fascinating journey into our city’s past for readers, just as delving into the archives and his family’s history was fascinating for me.
The Nobiscum Foundation is among the finalists of the 2025 POLIN Award! We are very grateful for the recognition of our work, and we are especially happy that among the finalists are people whose work we have known and admired for years! The finalists of […]
Yitzhak Grünbaum (1879-1970), a member of the Legislative Parliament and the Parliament of the First, Second, and Third Term of the Second Polish Republic, and one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence of Israel, earned his place in Płock’s history as the initiator […]
Borys Kowadło – photographer, was born on December 2, 1911 in a house at 4 Bielska Street, in the family of Dawid and Ruda nee Asz. His father was a ritual slaughterer. Borys Kowadło was a student at the photo studio of his brother-in-law Abram (Adam) Watman, which operated at 6 Kolegialna Street under the name “Foto-Salon”. During the interwar period, he lived at Sienkiewicza Street, in a house at number 31 (now 49 Sienkiewicza Street). Due to the growing antisemitism in Poland, Borys Kowadło left Płock and in 1933 went to Amsterdam, where several of his relatives lived. He was registered as a photographer in 1937. He was closely associated with the Polish-Jewish community in Amsterdam, organized around the Szymon An-ski association. After the outbreak of World War II and the occupation of the Netherlands by the Germans, due to Nazi regulations and deportations to concentration camps, he went into hiding and was active in the resistance movement under the pseudonym “Bernard van der Linden”. He also joined the underground group of photographers “De ondergedoken camera”, who took pictures of many events during the war (unfortunately most of their archives were lost). After the end of the war, Borys Kowadło traveled to Israel several times, where his brother Mojżesz lived. He was the author of many photo sessions from life in Israel. He died while traveling to Portugal and Spain, where he wanted to perpetuate the legacy of Sephardic Jewish life, on May 24, 1959.
Icek (Izaak) Bernsztajn – lawyer, teacher and publicist, was born on November 13, 1899 in Płock (in the house at 15 Kwiatka Street) in the family of Tobiasz and Sura. In 1918, he entered the seventh grade of the Philological Middle School of the Men’s […]
Yaakov (Jakub) Guterman – painter and illustrator, born in 1935 in Warsaw, the son of Simcha and Ewa née Alterowicz. His hometown is Płock, where he lived with his parents in a one-story house at 64 Sienkiewicza Street. Jakub’s father ran a knitting workshop and […]
We are entering the seventh year of JewishPlock.eu – the most important online source of information about the history of the Płock Jewish community!
On the website you will find family albums, biograms, information about places related to the Jewish community of the city of Płock, films, online exhibitions and projects through which we aim to commemorate the history of Jews from Płock.
The website is created also by you – our friends. You share your family stories, photos and memorabilia with us. All of these activities are possible thanks to the support of our donors. Help us fulfill this mission in the incoming year!
At the beginning of April, we need to pay the costs of maintaining the JewishPlock.eu server and domain registrations for the next year. We will need a sum of 2,000 PLN for this purpose. If you value our website and wish to support us in our work, you can do so by making a donation of an amount of your choice for this purpose:
https://jewishplock.eu/en/donations/
We wholeheartedly thank everyone who supports us in our activities!
An extraordinary publication on the history of the Jews of Płock has been published – it is a source study of the “Pinkas Hakahal” – chronicle of the Jewish community in Płock in the years 1762-1818, originally preserved in the collection of the Jewish Historical […]
