After World War I in the Upper Silesia plebiscite, 467 out of 505 inhabitants voted in favour of rejoining Poland, which just regained independence, compared to 38 for Germany. It later became a part of Silesian Voivodeship, Second Polish Republic. On September 3, 1939, during the German invasion of Poland which started World War II, the German "Freikorps" committed a massacre of 13 Poles in the village, including a family of six with four children aged 8 to 14 (see "Nazi crimes against the Polish nation"). The village was then occupied and annexed by Nazi Germany. After the war, in 1945, it was restored to Poland.