During the German-Soviet War the village was the location of the Soviet partisan detachment under the command of NKVD colonel Dmitry Medvedev.

On February 28, 1944 almost all of the villagers, mostly of Polish ethnic background, plus several hundred refugees from Volhynia, and about 20 hidden Jews, were all murdered.

[2] What wasn't already burned in the village, was otherwise razed during the Huta Pieniacka massacre, deemed later as a pre-planned pacification action[3] by the 4th SS police regiment, which was later adjoined to the SS Galizien (the conclusion of both Polish and Ukrainian historical commissions).

Both of these buildings were demolished after the war, and the area where the village once stood, is a pasture where cattle now graze.

In 2009, the then presidents of the two countries, Lech Kaczyński and Viktor Yushchenko respectively, visited the site to pay tribute to the victims.