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 […]
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 the board of the Jewish Community in Płock and to the Town Council. During the interwar period, he managed the Society for the Care of Jewish Children. He owned shares in the “Merkury” Steamship Company in Płock. He was called the Rotschild of Płock . He was awarded the Silver Cross of Merit. Józef Rogozik lived with his family in a tenement house at 6 Kolegialna Street in Płock.
Józef’s brother was Uszer Zelek vel Adolf Rogozik (born 1869) – a banker and industrialist, the owner of A. Rogozik and Co. Bank and the company and the Vistula Steamship company.
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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 […]
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 by profession. The great-grandfather of Anna, Dwojra, Mordka, Maurycy and Leonard – Icek Nelkin (ca. 1768-1838) together with his wife Sara (ca. 1778-1848) came from Płońsk. There also their great-grandfather was born – Joel Nelkin (born 1819), a merchant by trade. In 1842, Joel married Estera Brana née Łopatka, daughter of Mortka and Enta, of the same age. Joel and Estera Brana Nelkin had nine children: daughters Sura (born 1852), Hana (born 1854), Gitla (born 1858), Chaja Liba (born 1861), Gołda (born 1865), Enta (born 1866) and Ruchla (born 1871) and sons Mortka (born 1850) and Icek Szlama (born 1843). Mortka Nelkin, also professionally involved in trade, married Tauba Ruchla Wyrobek (born 1856), daughter of Szmul and Fajga nee Zając. Their children were Mindla (born 1878), Fradel (born 1879), Dyna (born 1881), Dwojra (born 1888), Abram Moszek (born 1892), Noma (born 1893), Zelman Boruch (born 1895) and Icek Nelkin mentioned above. Mortka and Tauba Ruchla and their children lived at Synagogalna St. in Płock.
The wife of Icek Nelkin – Małka Finkelsztejn was the daughter of Lajzer (1833-1877), son of Markus and Brana, and Hana (born 1836), daughter of Szlama and Sura Rafałowicz, who came from Kleczewo. Małka had several siblings: sister Ruchla (born 1862), Szaja Estera (born 1864), Rojza (born 1870), Fajga (born 1873) and brother Abram Moszek (born 1866).
During World War II, the Nelkin family was murdered in Treblinka. Only Anna Nelkin and her brother Mordka survived the war. The fate of Maurycy Nelkin remains unknown.
Photos from the family album of Miriam Gavish:
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 […]
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 her family home. From 1904 to 1910, she attended a gymnasium (secondary school) in Płock. In 1911, she left for Warsaw, where she studied privately. In February 1912 she went to Berlin, where she attended lectures of professor Mejer. In September 1912, due to her mother’s illness, she returned to Warsaw. In 1913 she obtained a secondary school graduate certificate. She stayed in Warsaw until the outbreak of the war. In 1914 she returned to Płock, where she worked on deepening her knowledge and gave lessons. In January 1916, she set up a private elementary school in Wyszogród, which at the beginning of 1917 went under the management of the local magistrate. From January 1, 1925, as a result of the request, she was transferred to the position of a teacher at the 7-class Public General School No. 8 in Płock. She was the head of this school until the outbreak of World War II. In 1938 she received the medal “For Long Years of Service”.
Masza’s brother was Salomon Bromberger (born 1883) – a social activist who during the World War I was active in the Committee for Assisting the Help of Jews, and in 1916 he was elected to the board of the Jewish Community in Płock.
Ludwika Dąbrowska has gone down in Płock’s history as an extraordinary philanthropist who made the largest bequest for charity in the town in the 19th century. Ludwika (aka Liwsza) came from a Jewish family from Płock. She was the daughter of Rozalia vel Ruchla nee […]
