At the beginning of September, we invite everyone to the premiere of a documentary film produced by the Nobiscum Foundation on the initiative of Arieh Bomzon and Sandra Brygart Rodriguez – descendants of the Bomzon and Brygart Jewish families from Płock. The film shows their […]
On the occasion of the 104th anniversary of the defense of Płock against the Bolsheviks, we recall the Jews of Płock who joined the Polish Army as volunteers during the Bolshevik invasion in 1920 As Szmul Grojnem Wasserman, born in 1897, wrote: “In July 1920 […]
On Saturday, March 23, at 6 p.m., the Nobiscum Foundation invites everyone to join us at the Darmstadt House at 8 Old Market Square for the premiere of our latest publication, this time addressed to younger readers – the book “Adam and his Płock” by Gabriela Nowak-Dąbrowska, based on childhood memories of Adam Neuman-Nowicki and illustrated by Yaakov Guterman!
The cold winter of 1941. Against the background of a neglected building on Kwiatka Street in Płock, six people stand in the snow. Chawa Papierczyk – a young woman with dark, smoothly combed hair, parted in the middle. A smile appears on her face. All […]
Thanks to co-funding of the City of Płock, this autumn our new guidebook by Gabriela Nowak-Dąbrowska will be published, this time dedicated to Kwiatka Street! We are preparing the publication in connection with the 150th anniversary of birth of Józef Kwiatek – a socialist activist, […]
On 1 February 2024, at a meeting organized at the Jewish Historical Institute, the director of the institute, Monika Krawczyk, and the director of the Treblinka Museum, Edward Kopówka, signed an agreement on cooperation in creating the museum’s permanent exhibition. The opening is scheduled for the 83rd anniversary of the prisoners’ uprising in Treblinka, on August 2, 2026.
The team responsible for developing the exhibition will be led by Prof. Andrzej Żbikowski. The new museum will include a Memorial Wall, the preparation of which will be the work of Ewa Teleżyńska-Sawicka and Paweł Sawicki from the Memory of Treblinka Foundation, which collects and promotes knowledge about the camp, collects existing accounts of witnesses and survivors, and publishes the names of people, who were murdered in Treblinka.
There will be approximately 120,000 names on the Memorial Wall, including the names of Jews from Płock.
On January 27, on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in 1945, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day is held. This day was designated by the UN General Assembly on November 1, 2005. For many years, the Shalom Foundation has been inviting people […]
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 had only one task – to murder as many Jews as possible in the shortest possible time. According to his account, there were several cases of resistance in the camp, including one at the end of 1942: a transport of women arrived, they stood naked before going to the “baths”, many of them with children in their arms. At one point they attacked the Germans and Ukrainian guards with milk bottles, punched and scratched them. The attacked guards became furious and fired a series of shots at the women.
On October 14, 1943, the conspirators killed several SS men, and several hundred prisoners began a chaotic escape. About 300 Jews managed to escape to the nearby forest. The number of participants of the uprising who managed to survive the war is estimated at about 40-70 people.
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 […]
