In 1454, the region was reincorporated to the Kingdom of Poland by King Casimir IV Jagiellon upon the request of the anti-Teutonic Prussian Confederation.

[4] Świekatowo was a private church village of the Diocese of Włocławek, administratively located in the Świecie County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland.

[6] Following World War I, Poland regained independence in 1918, and the village was restored by Germany to the Second Polish Republic in 1920 per the Treaty of Versailles.

The massacre happened as Poles were attending a church mass from which they were dragged out by German soldiers and shot (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).

[7] From 1939 to 1945, under German occupation, the village belonged to the administrative region of Marienwerder in the newly formed province of Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia.