City officials in the Polish town of Plonsk announced a competition for historical work on Polish-Jewish relations. They issued a call for memoirs, diaries, interviews and other works related to 20th-century relations between Jews and non-Jews in Poland. Plonsk, located near Warsaw, is the birthplace of Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion.
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