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 – 825)
• 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 ​)

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.

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.