Memorial Plaque, Martef HaShoah, Jerusalem (from Sefer Stashev)

Memorial Plaque, Martef HaShoah, Jerusalem (February 2003)

Lisa Gottlieb at the Memorial Plaque, Martef HaShoah, Jerusalem (February 2003)

Michael Gottlieb at the Valley of Communities, Yad Vashem, Feb. 2003

Towns in the Kielce Region, Valley of Communities, Yad Vashem, Feb. 2003

Towns in the Kielce Region, Valley of Communities, Yad Vashem, Feb. 2003

Valley of Communities, Yad Vashem, Feb. 2003

David Gottlieb at the Valley of Communities, Yad Vashem, Feb. 2003

Valley of the Communities, Yad Vashem (Courtesy Beth Rubin)

Dovid Shniffer (author of "Ayrati Plontch" - "My Shtetl Plontch" - Sefer Stashev)

Rabbi Elazar Horowitz (from Sefer Stashev)

Rabbi Elazar Horowitz (courtesy of Carl Appel)

Rebbe Avrohom Chaim Horowitz (left) and his son Dovid (from Sefer Stashev)

Rabbi Moshe Horowitz (from Sefer Stashev)

Avrohom Chaim Horowitz (from Sefer Stashev)

Carl and Abraham Kaufman (l-r)

Carl Appel with a friend in Plontch

Cham Fass, the town shochet - ritual slaughterer (from Sefer Stashev)

Mt. Korczak and Drodniarze, who helped save the Kaufman brothers

Mr. Majsak, who helped save the Kaufman brothers

The Kaufman family, Parents and siblings of Carl, Abraham and Walter Kaufman

Yitzchak and Sarah Gottlieb, great-grandparents of Michael Gottlieb

Morris and Tsurtel Gottlieb, wedding photo, 1904, grandparents of Michael Gottlieb

Morris and Tsurtel Gottlieb, grandparents of Michael Gottlieb

Sol and Rebecca Gottlieb

Michael and Marianne Gottlieb, September 2001

Family of Chaya Gottlieb, sister of Tsurtel Gottlieb (grandmother of Michael Gottlieb)

Esther and Morris Kaufman

Naftali and Sarah Kaufman

Cover of Sefer Stashev

Plontch Talmud Torah

Another view of the Talmud Torah

Portrait of Yeshiva Students, 1939 (courtesy of Carl Appel)

The Plontch Wooden Synagogue, interior

The Plontch Wooden Synagogue

The Plontch Wooden Synagogue

The Plontch Wooden Synagogue

The Plontch Wooden Synagogue

The Plontch Wooden Synagogue (from Sefer Stashev)

The stamp of S. Pinchewski, photographer (courtesy of Radoslaw Matusiewicz)

11 Listopada Street, former Jewish homes (courtesy of Radoslaw Matusiewicz)

The town square, about 1932 (courtesy of Radoslaw Matusiewicz)

The town square, about 1932 (courtesy of Radoslaw Matusiewicz)

The town square, about 1932

The town square, about 1932

The town square, about 1932

Typical street in Plontch (courtesy of the Jewish Week)

Cemetery boundary marker (Courtesy of N. Weinberg)

Mass grave in former Jewish Cemetery (Courtesy of N. Weinberg)

Monument from the former Jewish Cemetery (Courtesy of N. Weinberg)

Monument from the former Jewish Cemetery (Courtesy of N. Weinberg)

Matzevah, recently discovered, Summer 2004. Now on display at the Polaniec Town Hall (Courtesy of N. Weinberg)

Matzevah, recently discovered, Summer 2004. Now on display at the Polaniec Town Hall (Courtesy of N. Weinberg)

Matzevah, recently discovered, Summer 2004. Now on display at the Polaniec Town Hall (Courtesy of N. Weinberg)

Matzevah, recently discovered, Summer 2004. Now on display at the Polaniec Town Hall (Courtesy of N. Weinberg)

Matzevah, recently discovered, Summer 2004. Now on display at the Polaniec Town Hall (Courtesy of N. Weinberg)

Hannah Weinberg with Ewa Pancut - a Jewish resident of Polaniec (Courtesy of N. Weinberg)

Hannah Weinberg at the Polaniec town hall (Courtesy of Norman Weinberg)

Current birds-eye view of the town

Plancher Society Meeting

Plancher Society Meeting

Plancher Society Meeting

Plancher Society Meeting

Plancher Society Meeting

Plancher Society Meeting

Plancher Society Meeting

Plancher Society Meeting

Plancher Society Meeting

Plancher Society Meeting

Plancher Society Meeting

Plancher Society Meeting

Plancher Society Meeting

Plancher Society Meeting

Plancher Society Meeting

Plancher Society Meeting

Bracha Waisbrot, Yaakov Meyer, Nathan Waisbrot

Gitel Pass

Moshe Goldszmid and Nathan Waisbrot

Moshe Goldszmid and Nathan Waisbrot and friends

Moshe Goldszmid and Nathan Waisbrot

Moshe and Esther Goldszmid

Moshe Goldszmid, Bracha Waisbrot, Nathan Waisbrot, Moshe Futerman

Nathan Waisbrot, Yankel Klein, Moshe Goldszmid

Bracha and Nathan Waisbrot

Bracha Waisbrot

Bracha Waisbrot (on r.)