Hobag labor camp

Before the war, the sawmill at the now closed railway station on the road to Nowy Targ belonged to the Kraków entrepreneur Izydor Landau. It was one of the largest workplaces in the area. After the capture of Czarny Dunajec, the Germans took over the sawmill, where, apart from Poles, Jewish forced laborers also worked. Most of them commuted to work by train from Nowy Targ.

As recalled by Władysław Nyka, who as a teenager worked for four years at the "Hobag" company in Czarny Dunajec, the plant employed about 250 people, including about 40-50 Jewish workers. The plant produced wooden elements for the German army, e.g. air hangars for the Luftwaffe and barracks for soldiers.

After the displacement and murder of the Jews in Podhale in August 1942, the Jewish workers were barracked in a barrack on the site of the sawmill, transforming it into the "Hobag" labor camp (Holzbau Aktiengesellschaft Breslau).

Over 20 Jewish forced laborers died in two mass executions in 1942 and were buried in mass graves in the Jewish cemetery in Czarny Dunajec. The camp was liquidated in May 1943 and the Jews working there were transported to the camp in Płaszów.