Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the village was occupied by Germany until 1945 and local Poles were subjected to various atrocities. On October 21, 1939, the German "Einsatzgruppe VI" carried out a public execution of Poles as part of the "Intelligenzaktion". It was one of many massacres of Poles committed by Germany on October 20-23 across the region in attempt to pacify and terrorize the Polish population. In late 1940, the German gendarmerie carried out expulsions of Poles, whose farms were then handed over to German colonists as part of the "Lebensraum" policy. Expelled Poles were initially held in a transit camp in Łódź, where they were stripped of any valuable items, and then enslaved as forced labour or deported to the General Government (German-occupied central Poland).