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 […]
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 from the State Archives in Łódź and the State Archives in Płock, which is a project partner. The exhibition was created thanks to the cooperation and involvement of family members who live today in Poland, Italy and other countries and was produced thanks to co-funding of the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland.
The event was included in the program of the European Days of Jewish Culture 2023, held under the name “Memory”.
Link to the online exhibition: https://jewishplock.eu/en/szenwicfamily/
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 […]
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 others, from the collections of the State Archives in Łódź and the State Archives in Płock, which is a partner of the project. The exhibition was created thanks to the cooperation and commitment of family members who still live in in Poland and Italy and thanks to funding from the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland. The event is included in the program of the European Days of Jewish Culture 2023 held under the name “Memory”.
We would like to invite you to the opening of the exhibition and the meeting with the descendants of the Szenwic family on September 2 at 11.00 a.m. at the Darmstadt House at 8 Old Market Square in Płock.
The exhibition will be available at the Darmstadt House on September 2-3, 2023. From September 4 – October 31, 2023, we invite you to see it in the P Gallery at the Płock City Hall at 1 Old Market Square.
In addition, on Sunday, September 3, we invite you to our authors’ day at the exhibition – everyone who visits us at the Darmstadt House between 11.00 a.m. – 4 p.m. can meet us and talk about the Szenwic family and our project.
Just after the weekend of its opening, the exhibition will also be available online on JewishPlock.eu, in Polish and English.
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. […]
The prisoners knew that there was no way out except to fight, which could bring liberation to some of them. The great holy will to live, the love of freedom, gave rise to the idea of breaking free from hell surrounded by barbed wire. Marian […]
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.
On Sunday, 2 July, at the Galicia Jewish Museum, we took part in a ceremony during which we were honored with the “Preserving Memory” award for our contribution to saving and commemorating Jewish heritage in Poland. We feel honored and touched that we are now […]
