On January 27, on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in 1945, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day is held. This day was designated by the UN General Assembly on November 1, 2005. For many years, the Shalom Foundation has been inviting people […]
Exactly 150 years ago, on January 22, 1874, born in Płock was Józef Kwiatek – socialist activist, journalist and the patron of the street that was once the heart of the Jewish district. His biography can be found on the JewishPlock.eu website: https://jewishplock.eu/en/jozef-kwiatek-en/
On October 14, 1943, an uprising of prisoners led by Aleksander “Sasza” Peczerski broke out in the German Nazi extermination camp in Sobibór. One of the participants of the rebellion was Moshe Bahir (Szklarek) from Płock (1927-2002). As he recalled years later, the Sobibór camp had only one task – to murder as many Jews as possible in the shortest possible time. According to his account, there were several cases of resistance in the camp, including one at the end of 1942: a transport of women arrived, they stood naked before going to the “baths”, many of them with children in their arms. At one point they attacked the Germans and Ukrainian guards with milk bottles, punched and scratched them. The attacked guards became furious and fired a series of shots at the women.
On October 14, 1943, the conspirators killed several SS men, and several hundred prisoners began a chaotic escape. About 300 Jews managed to escape to the nearby forest. The number of participants of the uprising who managed to survive the war is estimated at about 40-70 people.
Our exhibition “Szenwic. The story of one family” is now available online! The exhibition prepared by the Nobiscum Foundation presents the history of members of a Jewish family associated with Płock since the beginning of the 19th century. The exhibition includes family photographs and documents […]
The Nobiscum Foundation would like to invite everyone to read a new guidebook that we have published. The publication entitled “In the footsteps of Jewish artists from Płock” by Gabriela Nowak-Dąbrowska, published thanks to the co-funding of the City of Płock, is dedicated to Jewish […]
We are pleased to inform you that our new publication – “Jewish women of pre-war Płock. Part I” – is now available (in Polish).
Full of energy, strength, passion and determination, women have always played an important role in the history of Płock. Many of them can still be extremely inspiring for the next generations of girls and women. We, as the Nobiscum Foundation, are also trying to restore the memory of Jewish women associated with Płock.
The publication by Gabriela Nowak-Dąbrowska was based on archival materials stored in the State Archives in Płock and information contained in students’ personal files in the collection of the Archives of the University of Warsaw. We hope that it will allow us to recover the forgotten herstories of our city, bring the pre-war residents of Płock of Jewish origin out of oblivion, and encourage you to tour the city in their footsteps.
In the first part, we present 10 women. What they have in common is courage, dedication and commitment in various fields in the face of the Polish-Bolshevik war.
The publication is now available for sale for PLN 15 at the Płock Local Tourist Organization (8 Old Market Square) and by mail order at the Nobiscum Foundation (contact: info@fundacjanobiscum.eu)
The exhibition entitled “Szenwic. The story of a family” prepared by the Nobiscum Foundation will present the history of members of a Jewish family associated with Płock since the beginning of the 19th century. The board exhibition will consist of family photographs and documents, among […]
On August 2, 2023, at the Cinema Around the Corner of the Franciszka and Stefan Themerson Center for Culture and Arts in Płock , the premiere of the film “The last path of their lives. People of Płock in the Uprising in Treblinka” took place. […]
On June 1 this year, as the Nobiscum Foundation we sent a letter to the Mayor of the City of Płock, Andrzej Nowakowski, with an appeal to make a decision on the extraction of matzevot from the Park on the Hill (“Na Górkach”), securing them and placing them in the Jewish cemetery at Mickiewicza Street in the future. Our letter was signed by local activists, tour guides, historians, employees of institutions and descendants of Płock Jews: Monika Niedźwiecka, Małgorzata Pawłowska, Zbigniew Jaszczak, Dorota Zaremba, Piotr Gryszpanowicz, Hanna Witt-Paszta, Roman Paszta, Katarzyna Chojnowska, Dariusz Kryszak, Radosław Łabarzewski, Sandra Brygart Rodriguez, Tomer Bomzon, Arieh Bomzon, Adam Kotkiewicz, Artur Jaroszewski and Rafał Kowalski (in random order).
In the reply we received, Mayor Andrzej Nowakowski informed us that preparatory work is currently underway to select a contractor to develop design and cost documentation for the development of the cemetery area and the areas around the cemetery, as well as modernization of the Park on the Hill, and assured us that the municipality would make every effort so that the matzevot, both those already collected and those extracted during the upcoming renovation of the park, are inventoried and placed in the Jewish cemetery (mounted in the wall separating the northern and southern parts).
We would like to thank the Mayor for this important declaration!
You can read the entire correspondence below – in Polish. Full English translation coming to JewishPlock.eu soon.
🇬🇧 Forum for Dialogue – the oldest Polish non-governmental organization aiming to improve Polish-Jewish relations, for 25 years has been gathering people for whom Jewish history and heritage in Poland are of great importance. This year we had the honor and pleasure to participate in […]
