up on the wall of the house at Szeroka Street 43, the property of [. . .] baker,
Rozensztejn Boruch, and the [. . .] of the PPS [. . .]
[3] and Germans from nearby settlements. Most of the town’s Germans
were assimilated into Polish ways, actively involved in all Polish patriotic
social campaigns. The commander of the local fire brigade and chairman of
the Polish merchants association [. . .] was a German, Szulc Gustaw.¹⁶¹⁹ Only
[. . .] [after] the September events¹⁶²⁰ was he dismissed from [. . .] those posts,
although when they [. . .] he was arrested [. . .] a Volksdeutsche, [. . .] local pastor
[. . .] yielded [. . .] the same thing in [. . .] the “Liga Morska i Kolonialna”¹⁶²¹ he
sat on the board and actively cooperated [. . .] Józef, 2) Sziper,¹⁶²² 3) Herold [. . .]
[4] purchased textile goods in [. . .] the store of Mr Blaj Alfred.¹⁶²³.Names
were published of Jews who were ‘hellishly’ rich and gave no money for defence
of the homeland. Shortly before [. . .] one started to see [. . .] Germans [. . .]
from the nearby settlements.
[1b] [. . .] was [. . .] is in [. . .] aggressive because [. . .] Archbishop Aleksander
Jan Now[owiejski]¹⁶²⁴ [. . .] considered a friend of the Jews, in all circumstances
showed tolerance toward Jews, during his [. . .] in Płock [. . .] there were no physical attacks [. . .] on Jews [. . .] from Płock Jewish youth in [. . .] in the ranks of the PPS, the Legions [. . .] struggle for independence [. . .] extent favourably influenced [. . .] relations. The leader of the famous [. . .] demonstration in Warsaw
in Grzybowski Square in 1905 was [. . .] the Jewish youth Józef Kwiatek.¹⁶²⁵
1619 His surname may have been spelled “Schulz” or “Schultz.”
1620 i.e. the outbreak of war.
1621 (Polish) “Maritime and Colonial League,” Polish social organisation established in 1930, whose main goal was the creation of Polish colonies and overseas settlements.
1622 Spelling could be “Schiper” or “Schipper”.
1623 Alfred Blaj (Blei?) (1876–1958), merchant, active member of the Płock Association of Jewish Merchants; owner of a textile store on Grodzka Street; for many years an active member of the PPS (also after WWII) and a member of the local Jewish community board; survived the war in hiding in Warsaw outside the ghetto; from 1946 chairman of the Płock Jewish Committee, and employed by the Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes; see Żydzi płoccy, p. 154; see also Doc. 23.
1624 Archbishop Antoni Julian (given names incorrect in the original) Nowowiejski (1858– 1941[?]), bishop of the Płock diocese from 1908; arrested by the Germans in 1940, imprisoned in the Town Hall basement, then in Działdowo (Soldau) concentration camp, where he perished.
1625 On 13 November 1904 (not 1905, as in the original), Kwiatek organised an armed demonstration in Grzybowski Square, Warsaw.
