ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

The Polish State Archives Website
(https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/​):

Direct links to some files on this site with information relating to Kock:

• Catholic Civil Registry Records for Kock (1817 – 1825)
• Synagogue Registry Records for Kock (1826 – 1912)
• Reports on the Functions of the Kock Jewish Community (1838 – 1860)
• Reports on City functions and finances submitted to the Government Committee for Internal Affairs:
   
  These reports include information (in Polish and Russian) on the history of the Town, property owners and szlachta, and the Jewish community. There are a few tax lists with Jewish and Polish residents and several contracts between town officials and Jewish individuals.
  • Volume I (1811 – 1829)
  • Volume II (1830 – 1834)
  • Volume III (1834 – 1844)
  • Volume IV (1844 – 1867)​  - No digital scans available as of the date this page was updated
  • Accounting & Economic Files of the City (1859 – 1867)
• Liquidation Tables for Kock (1862 – 1932)
• Records of the City of Kock (1875 – 1916)​  - Collection with multiple items, including censuses of the residents
• Election of the Rabbi (1923 – 1928)​  - Several scans at the end of the collection pertain to the election of Abram Josek Morgensztern as the Rabbi of Kock.
• Meeting Minutes of the Kasa Stefczyka (a cooperative bank) Branch in Kock (1909 – 1948)
• Post-World War II Photographs of Kock (1963 – 1966)

Additional Direct Links to some valuable sources of Kotzk history from this Site, but which are in record sets that contain lots of information about other or multiple towns:

• Lublin Land Records (1409 – 1810)
• Records of the city of Lubartów (1545 – 1810)
• Notary Records of Wiktor Witkowski, file writer in the Siedlce Department (1810 – 1818)​ - His office was based out of Kock in 1813, and there are several contracts and other types of notarized documents with Jews living in Kock during this time.
• Reports on Military Use of Structures in Kock and Other Localities (1825 ​, 1826 ​)

Notary and Other Records from the Polish Genealogical Society:

• There are several notary records for the Lubartów area that include records notarized by many residents of Kock. The files are available under the State Archives in Lublin​ category, and an index of the surnames of people who had documents notarized between 1810 and 1876 is available in the files of the Office of Gracjan Wereżyński, notary in Lubartów.

Cemetery Records:

• Foundation for Documentation of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland (Wirtualny Cmentarz).
• There is a cemetery plot in the Beth Israel Memorial Cemetery in Woodbridge, New Jersey for burials associated with the Kotzker Sick and Benevolent Society. These records have been indexed by JewishGen, and a list of all the surnames from this cemetery was created by the Museum of Family History ​.
• Many Jews from Kock also emigrated to France during the late-1800's/early-1900's, and were part of a mutual aid society called Société Kock-Żelechów ​. Unfortunately it no longer appears to exist, and I have been unable to find records or contact information for them. Burial records associate with this society have been indexed through JewishGen.
• Information about individuals who moved to France from Kock might be available through searching on Gallica​, the digital library of the National Library of France.

Holocaust-Related:

• Sefer Kotsk (the Kotzk Yizkor Book, 1961):
  • Full Version (Hebrew/Yiddish with OCR)
  • Partial Version (English Translation)
• Search for Information about People from Kock impacted by the Holocaust in the Arolsen Archives.
• Search the Yad Vashem Archives for Jews Who Were Living in Kock During World War II.
• Dariusz Magier's List of Residents of Kock in 1939 can be viewed and downloaded through academia.org.

History of Kock & the Jewish Community:

• Sefer Kotsk (the Kotzk Yizkor Book, 1961):
  • Full Version (Hebrew/Yiddish with OCR)
  • Partial Version (English Translation)
• Shtetl Routes Guidebook on the Kock Jewish Community.
• Majewski, Jan. "Historja Miasta Kocka" (1928). (In Polish).
• Original and English Translation of the story of the childhood of Motyl Siemiatycki ​, who grew up in Kock in the early 1900's and remained relatively local through World War I.
• Historical Records about Kock Maintained at the National Library of Israel.
• Virtual Shtetl Page for Kock
• Search the Polish Federacja Bibliotek Cyfrowych (Federation of Digital Libraries; FBC) Site for Kock.
• Search the National Library of Poland's Site (Polona) for Kock:
  • Search Digital Documents for the keyword "Kock"
  • Search in OCR Contents for the keyword "Kock"
• United State Library of Congress. "Polish Declarations of Admiration and Friendship for the United States: Grammar and elementary schools; Łowicz-Łuków; Volume 52 - Kock, Lukow" (1923). [Online, images 201 and 202]​. Contains the signatures of several Polish and Jewish students who attended secular school in Kock during 1923.

Descendants of Kotzkers:

• A current blog discussing interpretations of past and present Kotzker Hasidic practices, run by a descendant of the Morgensztern​  family.
• Fox, Joseph, "Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk - A Biographical Study of the Chasidic Master"  (1988). Bash Publications, Inc., New York. [online PDF]
• A Genealogy Blog run by descendants of the families Gutman ​, Handelsman ​, and others, several of whom originally lived in Kock.
• A Genealogy Blog run by descendants of families with the surname Goldfarb ​, which includes research and information on some Goldfarbs who lived in Kock.