22 March marks the 125th birth anniversary of Beniamin Perelmuter (1898-1952) Beniamin (Beniamin Lejb) Perelmuter was born on March 22, 1898 as the son of Majer, a merchant from Łuck (Volyn province) and Liwcia nee Kon. He was born in the house of the heirs […]
JewishPlock.eu enters its fifth year! Family albums, biographies, information on places related to the Jewish community of the city of Płock – we develop and supplement these materials on constant basis, and the content published on the website is often accompanied by extensive historical research. […]
In 1998, the municipality of Płock purchased the building of the former synagogue at 7 Józefa Kwiatka Street from the Jewish Religious Community in Warsaw. The municipality planned to place a small museum dedicated to the Jews of Płock in the building, but also to devote this space to the Art Gallery of Płock. At the beginning of 1999, the director of the gallery at that time, Bożena Śliwińska, saw the ruined and abandoned building at Kwiatka Street. The spacious and high hall of the synagogue, after being adapted for exhibition activities, gave the perspective of presenting exhibitions that had not been possible to organize in Płock so far – presenting contemporary, spatial fabric installations, sculpture or monumental painting. It also gave the opportunity to organize monographic exhibitions of artists with great creative output, group exhibitions, as well as national and international art events.
The City Council of Płock, by resolution No. 752/XXXVI/01 of January 23, 2001, designated the building of the synagogue at 7 Kwiatka Street as the future seat of the Art Gallery of Płock. In the same year, a technical expertise of the facility and historical and scientific research were carried out as auxiliary materials for the project. In December, the public tender for the contractor, which was MAPRO, was settled. In 2002, the future seat of the Art Gallery of Płock was included in the city’s investment plan. At the same time, design work was underway. It was agreed that the City of Płock will be the investor of the construction works. However, the concept of moving the seat of the gallery to the building of the former synagogue was ultimately rejected by the mayor of Płock at that time, Mirosław Milewski, who argued that the city could not afford to invest in a new gallery. The synagogue at Kwiatka Street has been put up for sale by the municipality.
In 2005, the Płock Synagogue Association was established, which brought together people of culture and entrepreneurs – people not related to politics. A group of social activists decided to purchase the building at 7 Kwiatka Street, renovate it and establish the Museum of Mazovian Jews. The association prepared a renovation project, obtained support from sponsors and funding from the European Union (7.7 million PLN out of the total investment cost of 9 million PLN).
Thanks to the commitment and work of Roman Góralski, Jerzy Janiak, Konrad Jaskóła, Hanna Witt-Paszta, Fr. prof. Ireneusz Mroczkowski, prof. Janusz Zieliński, prof. Bogdan Grzeloński, Zofia Celińska, Anna and Wiktor Bramski and Marek Mokrowiecki, on March 14, 2013, the Museum of Mazovian Jews began its activity (the museum is a department of the Mazovian Museum in Płock and its activities are financed from the funds of the City of Płock and the Self-Government of the Mazovian Voivodeship).
In this way, the dream of Izrael Gerszon Bursztyn – the chairman of the board of the Jewish Committee in Płock, who after World War II made unsuccessful attempts to turn the surviving building of the Great Synagogue (today nonexistent) into a monument-mausoleum, came true.
You can also read about the history of the synagogue at 7 Kwiatka Street here (link)
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 […]
