Brana Libka (Ludwika) Kempner was born on February 16, 1873, in Płock, to Ludwik, a bookstore and printing house owner, and his wife Tauba née Kon. In 1897, she married Izaak Feinberg (born 1867), a doctor of medicine from Nieśwież, the son of Szmul and Chaja […]
JewishPlock.eu is entering its eighth year! Family albums, biographies, places connected with the Jewish community of Płock, films, exhibitions, databases, and online projects through which we aim to commemorate the history of Płock’s Jews. You will find all of this on our website, which was […]
The Nobiscum Foundation invites everyone to the exhibition “For you, unforgettable…” commemorating the 85th anniversary of the deportation of Jews from the Ghetto in Płock.
The exhibition opening will take place on Friday, February 20th, at 12:00 PM at the State Archives in Płock, 9b Kazimierza Wielkiego Street. The program includes a concert of Jewish songs performed by Radek Polakowski of the band Sztetl. As part of the event, we are also preparing a commemorative brochure and a new database on our website, JewishPlock.eu.
The exhibition will be open to visitors during the opening hours of the State Archives in Płock from February 23rd, 2026.
The partner of the project is the State Archives in Płock.
The exhibition project was co-financed by the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland.
The brochure is published thanks to the support of the Forum for Dialogue.
Important note: due to the limited number of places, the exhibition opening is an invitation only event – please contact us at the following email address: gabriela.nowak@fundacjanobiscum.eu
“For you, unforgettable…”
The exhibition “For you, unforgettable…”, prepared by the Nobiscum Foundation, presents and commemorates selected Jewish families connected to Płock. It tells the story of the people who shaped our city. Here they studied, worked, raised children, lived here for longer or shorter periods, walked the streets, and shared the joys and worries of everyday life. Although sometimes little trace remains of them in archival documents, they still look at us from photographs preserved in the family archives of their descendants: Arieh Bomzon, Sandra Brygart Rodriguez, Helene Armand, Guy Shapira, Robert Winogron, Anat Geffen, Izzy Greenspan, Itai Vishnia, Amos Ber and Halina Hylander-Tureniec.
The bilingual, Polish and English board exhibition “For you, unforgettable…” will be accompanied by documents from the extensive collection of the State Archives in Płock, presenting the history of Płock Jews from 1939 to 1945, selected and prepared by Senior Curator Magdalena Młodziejewska. The Nobiscum Foundation has also prepared a commemorative brochure, supported by the Forum for Dialogue, which will be distributed on February 20-21. A new database, available on the JewishPlock.eu website, will feature the names and surnames of over 6,000 Płock Jews, compiled from archival documents from the World War II period.
The newest guidebook published by the Nobiscum Foundation will premiere on December 12, 2025. Gabriela Nowak-Dąbrowska’s book, “In the Footsteps of Adam Neuman-Nowicki,” is being published thanks to co-funding from the Municipality of Płock. We invite you to the premiere event on December 12th at […]
The Nobiscum Foundation is among the finalists of the 2025 POLIN Award! We are very grateful for the recognition of our work, and we are especially happy that among the finalists are people whose work we have known and admired for years! The finalists of […]
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 (Adam) Watman, which operated at 6 Kolegialna Street under the name “Foto-Salon”. During the interwar period, he lived at Sienkiewicza Street, in a house at number 31 (now 49 Sienkiewicza Street). Due to the growing antisemitism in Poland, Borys Kowadło left Płock and in 1933 went to Amsterdam, where several of his relatives lived. He was registered as a photographer in 1937. He was closely associated with the Polish-Jewish community in Amsterdam, organized around the Szymon An-ski association. After the outbreak of World War II and the occupation of the Netherlands by the Germans, due to Nazi regulations and deportations to concentration camps, he went into hiding and was active in the resistance movement under the pseudonym “Bernard van der Linden”. He also joined the underground group of photographers “De ondergedoken camera”, who took pictures of many events during the war (unfortunately most of their archives were lost). After the end of the war, Borys Kowadło traveled to Israel several times, where his brother Mojżesz lived. He was the author of many photo sessions from life in Israel. He died while traveling to Portugal and Spain, where he wanted to perpetuate the legacy of Sephardic Jewish life, on May 24, 1959.
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 […]
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 Małka (born 1870) and Sura Liba (born 1872).
Blay was a well-known merchant and social activist in Płock: co-founder of the University for All, member of the Płock department of the Polish Culture Society, the Committee for Providing Aid to Jews in Płock, the Association of Jewish Merchants and the Jewish Charity Society. In 1916, he was elected to the board of the Jewish community in Płock. He also served as a lay judge in the Municipal Office. In the interwar period he ran a fabric shop at 11 Grodzka Street. During the German occupation he was arrested by the Gestapo, after being released from prison he was hiding in Warsaw. In 1946 he became the chairman of the Jewish Committee in Płock.
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 […]
