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 […]
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Adam Neuman-Nowicki (1925-2021) – a native of Płock, author of the book entitled “Struggle for life”. In connection with this special occasion, the Nobiscum Foundation prepares a new guidebook – “In the footsteps of Adam […]
Lejbusz Pszenica, Szmul Dawid Pszenica, Chana Ryfka Głowińska z domu Żychlińska, Azriel Szlama Pszenica, Dwojra Gitla Pszenica, Estera Tauba Pszenica, Gnanczy Pszenica, Abram Hersz Pszenica, Bina Pszenica, Małka Pszenica, Beniamin Hersz Niedźwiedź, Naftali Markus Frendler, Hinda Frajdla Grynbaum, Szmul Majer Luszyński… Many Jews from Płock were murdered in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.
Today, on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz German Nazi concentration and extermination camp and also on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we laid flowers and lit candles at the Jewish cemetery at Mickiewicza Street, wanting to symbolically commemorate thousands of Płock residents who were murdered during World War II.
The house at 64 Sienkiewicza Street in Płock, where Symcha Guterman lived with his wife Ewa and son Jakub, was entered into the register of monuments! We are very happy and hope that in the future, when the building is renovated, a plaque commemorating Symcha […]
