From the scattered pieces we build an image of a world that no longer exists. This is not always a complete picture, and many issues remain to be supplemented. We believe that the contemporary residents of the city, the descendants of the Jews of Płońsk and all those who are close to the history of Płońsk, after seeing the exhibition, will be inspired to conduct their own research and deepen the topics presented here, as well as to take a new look at the urban space. We hope that the exhibition will be a place for meeting and conversation, gathering knowledge, maintaining memory, and in the longer term, it will contribute to filling the narrative with further, previously undiscovered elements of the story.

For many years, the conditions for this have been created by the local government of the city of Płońsk, institutions and people maintaining Polish-Jewish relations and recalling the memory of former inhabitants, including one of the most famous figures from here – David Ben-Gurion – one of the founders and first prime minister of the State of Israel. The Memorial House is a continuation and one of the most important stages of the implementation of this mission.

While walking through the exhibition, we encourage you to look for our visual inspirations woven into the exhibition’s narrative, taken from the works of other famous Płońsk residents: illustrations for Cosmography by astronomer Jan Walery Jędrzejewicz and motifs from the graphic works of artist Józef Budko.

Curatorial text by Agata Korba (SENNA Collective) Coordination and production supervision of the exhibition