“People, not Numbers” project

Dariusz Popiela, a whitewater canoeist and Olympian from Nowy Sącz, has been restoring the memory of Jewish victims of the Holocaust in southern Poland for several years. In 2018, he realized the first edition of the project "People, not numbers" in Krościenko nad Dunajcem, where a monument was erected to commemorate the local community murdered during the Holocaust. In 2019, a similar project was implemented in Grybów.

The third edition of the project was carried out in Czarny Dunajec in 2020. As part of the action, a central monument and two stone plaques with the names and ages of 494 victims of the Holocaust from Czarny Dunajec and the surrounding towns, as well as two monuments (large white matzevot) placed at four mass graves, which were identified and secured with the help of the Rabbinic Commission for Cemeteries.

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