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 […]
In the autumn of 2016, a characteristic tenement house at Kolegialna 28 street disappeared from the cityscape of Płock. Before the war it was known as the Jewish gymnasium (middle school). It is worth recalling the history of this place, which for two decades was […]
At the beginning of the 1820s, a brick house was erected on the square at current 8 Grodzka Street. Behind the investment was a merchant Mateusz Kalinowski, who in 1798 leased this square from the Sisters of Mercy. In 1826, the tenement house was purchased by his son-in-law – Józef Jędrzejewicz, secretary of the Criminal Justice Court of the Płock and Augustów Provinces. In 1832, the estate was purchased by Wilhelm and Anna Blankensztajn. Wilhelm Blankensztajn (around 1792-1850), who was a professional baker, came from Potsdam. Since 1855 Gustav Kluge (around 1810-1856) owned the property. In the mid-nineteenth century, the baker Moritz Schmidt, the watchmaker Emanuel Dreysohn, the midwife Józefa Borowska, the tailor Kacper Chrzanowski, Katarzyna Popławska who maintained the girls’ school and the shoemaker Józef Gierbliński lived here. After the death of Gustav Kluge, his daughters Emilia and Zenobia and son Julian Kluge inherited his property. At the auction in 1861 it was bought by Maurycy vel Moritz Schmidt. In the years 1875-1876, a new front house was erected. In the square, according to data from 1876, there were also three two-storey and a single one-storey brick outbuildings and a brick granary. After the death of Maurycy Schmidt, the owners of the property were the widow – Amelia nee Hinc and Rudolf and Lidia – his children. In the years 1887-1891, a new brick three-storey outbuilding was erected (from the side of Gimnazjalna Street – currently Małachowskiego) and a front brick two-storey house on Gimnazjalna Street. The property was subsequently purchased from the Schmidts by Ludwik Cylke.
The last pre-war owner of the property (since 1918) was Lewek Kilbert, born on June 5, 1882 in the village of Wiskiennice (commune of Żychlin), son of Jakub and Hyca née Herszkowicz. Kilbert was a board member of the „Peace to the Faithful Israelites” association, president of the Jewish community and Isoda Torah school, director of the Merchant Bank at 16 Tumska Street. His wife was Szajna Gitla nee Majeranc, daughter of Nusen and Złata nee Makower, born on May 31, 1876. At 8 Grodzka Street in the 1920s and 1930s there were fruit stores of Mojżesz Gelibter and Hersz Robak, the watchmaker’s shop of Moses Jakub Globus, silk cloth shop of Lewek Kilbert and Chaim Strzałka’s paint shop. According to data from the end of August 1939, the residents of the property were, among others, Berek Becak, Abram Moszek Budnik, Lewek Kilbert, Masza Bajla Szymańska, Josef Chaim Strzałka, Abram Sakwa, Abram Luzer Szechtman, Eliasz Wolf Zylberberg, Salomon Szoel Sztern, Rubin Mundsztuk and Kiwa Kenigsberg. Lewek and his wife were deported during the war to the ghetto in Warsaw, where they died of typhus.
During the war, Lewek Kilbert’s brother Moszek (born in 1890) was deported to Bodzentyn, and then murdered in Treblinka on November 16, 1942, and his wife Dobra Frajda née Bernsztajn (born in 1885). The nephew of Lewek Kilbert (son of Doba Frajda and Moszek) – Lejb Kilbert survived the war.
In the yard of the property there is a unique modernist style sukkah – one of the few preserved in the space of the city of Płock.
Conscientious, diligent, talented, hard-working, devoted to school work… In this way, people from Płock perceived Masza (Maria) Bromberger, as evidenced by the preserved archival documents. Masza was born in 1895, as a daughter of Trajtel and Karolina neè Lewin. She received her elementary education in […]
