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 […]
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 School Society in Turek, and in June 1920 he received his secondary school certificate. On July 24, he joined the army as a volunteer, serving actively until November 28 of that year. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Warsaw. He taught religion at the Jewish school in Płock. He was also the author of many works, including: “Rozprawy o psychologii i pedagogice” [“Discourses on psychology and pedagogy”], “O okresie dojrzewania w życiu naszych klasyków” [“On the period of adolescence in the lives of our classics”], “Żydowska literatura i nauka na rzecz idei Królestwa Izraela” [“Jewish literature and science for the idea of the Kingdom of Israel”].
During the German occupation he lived in the Warsaw Ghetto. He was a collaborator of Emanuel Ringelblum, he wrote for the chronicle of the Warsaw ghetto. Two of his essays were found in the Ringelblum Archive: “Warszawa – 1941 r.” and “Kelsmski Kaznodzieja”. He died together with his family in the ghetto, in precisely unknown circumstances.
As he wrote in his essay “Głód w Warszawie” [“Famine in Warsaw”]:
“I saw a black cart today; the open door allowed me to see a coffin with a body. A woman, deprived of strength, hurried after it, sobbing to herself. The street was full of people who looked at her and heard her cries, surprised but silent. She ran, dragged herself behind the coffin, like a wounded bird, and everyone around her stared. My friend told me today that of his neighbors’ eight-person family, only two people remained: a mother and her son. He didn’t know which of the two will be taken first by hunger. And they walk around like this, mother and son, with yellowish, dried bodies, glowing like phosphorus…”
We publish the biogram of Icek Bernsztajn on the 82nd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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 […]
Abram Hersz aka Alfred Blay was born on May 30, 1876 in Płock. His father Natan (1839-1915) came from Kalisz. His mother was Estera née Landau (1845-1928), daughter of Icek Tobiasz and Małka. Alfred Blay had three siblings: brother Szmul Tobiasz (1868-1899) and sisters Hinda […]
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.
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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 […]
