The village was first mentioned in 1326 in the register of Peter's Pence payment among Catholic parishes of Oświęcim deanery of the Diocese of Kraków as Breze.

[4] Politically it belonged then to the Duchy of Racibórz, within feudally fragmented Poland, but a year later it became a fee of the Kingdom of Bohemia.

During the political upheaval caused by Matthias Corvinus the land around Pszczyna was overtaken by Casimir II, Duke of Cieszyn, who sold it in 1517 to the Hungarian magnates of the Thurzó family, forming the Pless state country.

During the German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II, the village was defended by Polish troops on September 1, 1939, and afterwards it was captured by Germany.

In January 1945, the German SS murdered around 20 prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp in the village during a death march.