At the beginning of August 2022, we wrote a letter to the Chairman of the City Council of Płock, Mr. Artur Jaroszewski, regarding the commemoration of three residents of Płock of Jewish origin – Symcha Guterman, Edward Flatau and Nachum Sokolow, by naming the newly […]
On March 1, 2020, the Nobiscum Foundation, courtesy of Susan Keller Mouckley, Sandra Brygart Rodriguez and Arieh Bomzon, presented a film recorded in the summer of 1937 in Płock by Herman and Norton Keller. The premiere of the film took place during a commemorative event […]
On January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp is commemorated by the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this day, we especially remember the Jewish residents of our city who were murdered in the Płock ghetto, in Imielnica, in the Działdowo transit camp, in the Warsaw ghetto, in the Auschwitz camp, in Treblinka…
As every year, the Shalom Foundation invites everyone to commemorate the victims of Jewish origin, murdered during World War II by Nazi Germany, at 1:00 p.m. at the Monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto in Warsaw.
On this day, the “Light of Remembrance” action also takes place, during which at 6 p.m. you can light a candle in the window of your home for the murdered Jewish people. We encourage you to participate in the action and turn on the Light of Remembrance also in your window here in Płock.
Ada Holtzman (1951-2016) was the daughter of Meir Holtzman (1914-1998) and Rywcia (Rywka) nee Gostyński (1914-1969). Her grandfather – Eliahu Holtzman (1866-1923) was married to Rasza née Złotnik (1870-1937), who came from a well-known rabbinical family. Her brother was the Płock rabbi Jona Mordechaj Złotnik. […]
November 14, 2022 is the date of the premiere of the latest book published by the Nobiscum Foundation – “Rachmonim bnei rachmonim. Charity and philanthropy of Płock Jews” by Gabriela Nowak-Dąbrowska. The 340-page publication is a presentation of selected initiatives undertaken by the Jews of […]
Fiszel Gerszon Nordenberg was born on November 1, 1895, in the family of a merchant Daniel Dawid Nordenberg and Hinda Michla Fliderblum, in a house at number 41 on the former Szeroka Street.
Neil Bass recalls his grandfather:
On August 5, 1917, in the wake of the US entering World War I, the #82nd Airborne Division was born. A recent immigrant from Plock, Poland, my grandfather, Philip Nordenberg, was among the proud, founding members of this awesome force of the US Army, known at the time as the 82nd Infantry Division. These pictures are of Grandpa Phil training with his regiment in Camp Gordon, Georgia in December 1917.
Grandpa Phil was deployed to France in May 1918 and fought valiantly for Company D of the 328th Infantry Regiment of the 164th Infantry Brigade in two of the most crucial battles of WWI: St. Mihiel, near Norroy, France in September 1918; and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive (September 29 – November 2, 1918). On October 6, 1918, the 328th captured Hill 223 from the Germans during the Meuse-Argonne battle where a decisive victory led to an armistice on November 11, 1918 and an end to the Great War.
The online exhibition “Rachmonim bnei rachmonim. The charity and philanthropy of Płock Jews” is now available: https://jewishplock.eu/en/rachmonim-bnei-rachmonim-en/ Organizer of the exhibition: The partner of the exhibition is the State Archives in Płock. The exhibition is part of the program of this year’s European Days of […]
Bolesław Norski-Nożyca was a well-known pre-war cabaret actor, monologist, parodist, author of song lyrics and sketch comedies and singer, who was born in 1904 in Płock as Wolf Nożyca in the family of a merchant, Icek and Tauba Ruchla née Frydman. The Nożyca family lived […]
The Nobiscum Foundation is happy to announce the premiere of the second edition of the guidebook “In the footsteps of Płock Jews” by Gabriela Nowak-Dąbrowska, which will be available from August 28 thanks to funding we received from the City of Płock.
The first edition of “In the footsteps of Płock Jews” was published in 2019, also thanks to the funding of the City of Płock. The edition of 500 copies was then distributed in record time. The publication by Gabriela Nowak-Dąbrowska made us realize how important it is to present the history of the Płock Jewish community through the prism of places and people in an accessible form of a guide. People from Płock, as well as from all over the world, including a large group of the descendants of Płock Jews, asked about the book. This year we are publishing the second edition of the book – significantly expanded, containing new information, determined over the course of several years of the author’s work, as well as photographs and QR codes made especially for this publication, containing additional video content, information and graphics.
The Jewish community, which has been contributing to the history of Płock for over 700 years, has left behind many objects present in the city space to this day, although not always as clearly related to their past as the buildings of the small synagogue or the mikveh. We can find them within the former Jewish district, including Szeroka (today’s Kwiatka), Więzienna (Sienkiewicza), Ostatnia, Jerozolimska, Synagogalna, Bielska, Tylna and Niecała streets, but also on the most representative streets of the city – Tumska, Grodzka and the Old Market Square. They housed private residences, shops, workshops and businesses of Płock Jews. In this book, there are over 50 such places, which is an outstanding testimony to the contribution made by the Jewish community to the development of the city.
The bilingual, Polish-English guidebook will be available free of charge at the Płock Local Tourist Organization (8 Old Market Square) from Sunday, August 28, 2022.
August 2, 2022 marks the 79th anniversary of the outbreak of the uprising in Treblinka. Marian Płatkiewicz recalled: “People from Płock were a pillar of the uprising. Motek Perelgryc, citizen of Płock, a bicycle mechanic. He worked in Treblinka as a tinsmith and repaired bicycles. […]
