The Jewish cemetery

The cemetery was probably founded in the second half of the 19th century. XIX. At that time, Czarny Dunajec was one of the largest centers of the Jewish community in Podhale. The dead were buried in the cemetery not only from Czarny Dunajec, but also from nearby towns, including from Chochołów, Wróblówka, Cichy, Witów, Międzyczerwienne, Infrared, Załuczne and Odrowąż. The last two villages were border villages with Orawa and Jews from Piekielnik and Podszkle were already buried in the Jewish cemetery in Podwilk.

In the north-western part of the cemetery, on the side of today's provincial road, there was probably a pre-burial house where the ritual washing of corpses and prayers before burial took place. The western part of the cemetery is older, several dozen tombstones in four rows of graves have been discovered. The eastern part of the cemetery is newer, probably part of the area was purchased later. There are mass graves in which about 50 victims of the 1942 execution were buried.

Since the war, the cemetery fell into disrepair and oblivion, not a single matzeva has survived, half of the brick fence has been destroyed. Only since 2016, thanks to the activity of local social activists, an action of cleaning up the cemetery has been organized every year, and in 2020 the facility underwent a huge change thanks to the project "People, Not Numbers", initiated by Olympian Dariusz Popiela.

As part of the project, a monument was made and the Jewish inhabitants of Czarny Dunajec and the surrounding area were commemorated by name, the victims of the execution who were buried in mass graves were also commemorated, and the graves themselves were located and secured, a new fragment of the missing part of the fence and a path were also made. As part of the project in Czarny Dunajec and its vicinity, several matzevot were recovered, which, after renovation, were returned to the cemetery and returned to the lapidarium. The project was possible thanks to the great commitment of the inhabitants of Podhale. The cemetery is a place of remembrance and burial place for hundreds of people.