The owner of the building in the historicizing style from 1873 was a grain and wool trader Markus Frenkiel Wolffsohn (1830-1910), later his son Izydor (Icek) inherited it. The next owner was the merchant Moszek Firstenberg (born 1852), son of Izrael and Fajga née Szlam, […]
Roza Holcman (born in 1910), daughter of Lejb (1886-1930) and Liza Lea nee Rozenberg (1888-1975), was the first female lawyer in Płock. In 1934, she graduated from the University of Warsaw. She was trained as a legal practitioner by Kazimierz Mayzner (1883-1951) – a well-known […]
Synagogalna Street is one of the streets forming the former Jewish district in Płock. Its name comes from the now-defunct building of the main synagogue located on the square between Synagogalna and Tylna Streets, marked with mortgage number 32 (you can read more about the synagogue here: https://jewishplock.eu/en/the-great-synagogue/). The synagogue was a place of prayer and religious gatherings, there were also ceremonial services on the occasion of the name-day of Ignacy Mościcki, anniversary of the January Uprising or resistance against the invasion of the Bolsheviks. During the occupation, the synagogue was used by the Germans for a car workshop and a bus garage. It was demolished in 1951. At Synagogalna Street before the war, a higher religious school (bet hamidrasz) was located. The building for the synagogue and school was erected by Markus Kazriel Dancygier, who bought the property in 1832. In 1834, he handed the building over to the Jewish commune. In addition to the building, he donated 258 books, including 81 pieces of the Babylonian Talmud, works of Mojżesz Maimonides, Adam Chochmas and two scrolls for the school library. In 1865, at the Synagogalna St. in the home of Dawid Łaski, the Jewish elementary school was opened, headed by Hersz Szejman, and then by Abraham Jakub Papierna. At the end of the 19th century, there were also cheders located at Synagogalna, owned by Matys Gutmacher, Izrael Wolf Kon, Markus Ryża and Szyja Konczewski. Inhabitants of the street traded footwear (Ides Fuks, Lewin Lichtensztajn, Dawid Pokrzywa, Szlama Taub), haberdashery (Szmul Grünbaum), fabrics (Icek Koralczyk, Jojne Horowitz), tobacco products (Szymon Luszyński, Abram Majzner), leather (Mosiek Globus, Józef Szpiro) and flour (Wolf Piechotka). There were two fashion traders on the street – Jakub Kowadło and Chananie Zylberman. According to data from 1926, Jakub Cymbler’s company (colonial goods shop – Synagogalna 6), Izaak Gewircman’s (sale of butter, eggs and fruit – Synagogalna 26), Symcha Kanarek’s (bakery – Synagogalna 22) and Mojżesz Lisser’s (bakery – Synagogalna 16) were all registered there. At the outbreak of World War II, 446 people lived at Synagogalna Street. The street named Niecała was an extension of Synagogalna. In the place of the former buildings of Niecała, today the Square of the Executed 13 is located as well as a monument in honor of Poles, who on September 18, 1942 were hanged by the Nazis.
The defensive tower at 13a Zduńska Street is one of the remains of the medieval fortifications of the city. In the 18th century it was rebuilt into a residential house. The property has changed owners many times over the course of the 19th century. In […]
We would like to invite you to visit the exhibition “The Jewish Count. The story of Stanisław Posner”, prepared as part of the Nobiscum Foundation’s activities, which will be presented from June 13 at the Communal Cultural Center in Sochocin. The exhibition was launched last […]
In the beginning of the 1930s, the Holcman family lived at 4 Kolegialna Street in the house of Rafał Płońskier. Moszek Holcman (born 1890), son of Josek and Fajga née Zelkman, came from Czerwińsk. He was a trader by profession. His wife was Marjem née Szeraszew (born 1892). In 1930 their daughter Gabrysia was born, in 1936 – their son Evez.
Moszek Holcman had an older sister, Bella, who emigrated to the United States. She lived in Albany (New York).
The Holcman family in 1936 made memorial photos in the photographic studio of Abram Watman in Płock, which they sent Bella on the occasion of the upcoming New Year. These are the only family memorabilia that remained after Gabrysia, Evez, Moszek and Marjem.
Photographs from private collection of Kristi and Stewart Davis. Thank you!
The property with the mortgage number 75 and 76, on which the present tenement house is standing, was leased by the Municipal Office of the Town of Płock to Józef Markus Pozner on October 15, 1821. Józef Markus Pozner (circa 1763-1844) was a merchant in […]
Aniela Oberfeld was born in 1900 as a daughter of Rudolf (1859-1933) and Franciszka nee Bersztajn (born 1875). Her father was a well-known lawyer and educational activist in Płock, her mother a pedagogue and a social activist. The Oberfeld family lived in a tenement house […]
At Niepodległości Street in Wyszogród, there is a Jewish cemetery founded in the first half of the 19th century. During World War II, it was completely devastated by the Germans, who used tombstones to build roads and pavements. After the war, a monument commemorating the victims of the Holocaust was erected here. The inscription on it was engraved: “Even the dead did not rest in peace, this cemetery was desecrated by Nazi barbarians in 1939-1945.” In the surroundings of the monument some matzevot can be found.
On May 24 a ceremony was held of unveiling a plaque commemorating Jews and Poles, who at the beginning of 1941 were deported from Wyszogród and Bodzanów. On March 6, 1941, 2357 Jews were taken from the market square in Wyszogród. Ca. 1300 Jews were deported from Bodzanów. For them, it was the beginning of the road leading to extermination in the German death camps.
The commemorative plaque was placed on the facade of the Museum of the Central Vistula and Wyszogród Land, headed by the historian Zdzisław Leszczyński, in 2005 awarded with the “Preserving Memory” medal, which is awarded as part of the program to honor Poles for their effort to preserve Jewish heritage. Part of the museum’s exhibition was devoted to the Jewish community in Wyszogród. Among the exhibits there are padlocks excavated during archaeological research at the Jewish cemetery at Kilińskiego St., fragments of matzevot and banjo with a membrane made of a fragment of Torah. The real gem is the model of the synagogue in Wyszogród, created by Zdzisław Leszczyński.
The baroque tenement house, in the type associated with the northern circle, was erected in the third quarter of the 17th century. Since 1850, the owner of the property was a grain merchant, Ojzer Lewita. In the years 1852-1855 and 1857-1862 he tried to sell […]
