Restored matzevot

During the works at the Jewish cemetery in Czarny Dunajec, the remains of a pre-burial house were discovered, which was located at the main entrance from the road to Pieniążkowice. Only the foundations, remains of bricks and fragments of a few items, probably used in funeral ceremonies, remain of the building. During Dariusz Popiela's "People, not Numbers" project in Czarny Dunajec, several tombstones that were originally located in the local cemetery were recovered. Most of them have been professionally renovated and returned to the cemetery in the lapidarium created on the site of the former pre-burial house. Next to the lapidarium there is a board with information about 11 out of 13 matzevot with photos from before the renovation. Some of the inscriptions on the matzevot were only partially readable (and translated), two matzevot also have inscriptions in Polish. Further matzevot or fragments will be renovated and will also be located in the expanded lapidarium.

The largest matzevot in the lapidarium is a plaque in the middle of the southern part dedicated to the memory of Salomea Kolber (née Pacanower), who died on August 22, 1935. Next to it, there are matzevot with golden letters. The one on the right, preserved in its entirety, belonged to Mindel Lewi, daughter of Samuel Glücksman, a wealthy entrepreneur and councilor from Czarny Dunajec. Mindel was the wife of Dr. Levi, she was - as we read on the inscription - "a gentle and delicate woman, a brave woman, the crown of her husband, the glory of her sons, she passed away prematurely causing the deep sorrow of her fathers, guarded as the apple of the eye, and the sadness of her little children lamenting over the loss of a merciful mother. She died on October 7, 1887.

On the left side there is a partially damaged matzevah of her sister Rebeka (Rywka), who "did many good works with courage, daughter of Israel, she was clean, she did useful works, she heard the voice of the poor and the poor, her house was wide open". She died "on the holy Sabbath night" on July 9, 1903. According to the inscription on the tombstone, Rebekah was the daughter of "our master and teacher [...] Glücksman".

The first matzevah, which returned to the cemetery after several decades, belonged to Szlomo Zalman Gutfreund (black matzevah, first on the right from the south). The inscription on the matzeva is almost entirely preserved: "Here is buried a man who followed the road [...] every day of his life was the crown of his wife and children, a generous man and of noble birth, Mr. Szlomo Zalman Gutfreund, son of Mr. Yitzhak Levita. He died on the 30th day of Kislev in the year 5688. May his soul be bound in the knot of life." The archives include Salomon Gutfreund, a merchant from Czarny Dunajec, who died at the age of 59 on December 23, 1927 (30 Kislev 5688 in the Hebrew calendar is December 24, 1927).