The village was the location of the Szebnie concentration camp during German occupation of Poland in World War II.

The facility was constructed in 1940 originally as horse stables for the Wehrmacht next to a manorial estate.

Thousands of prisoners perished there over the course of the camp's operation, including Russian prisoners of war, Polish Jews and non-Jewish Poles as well as Ukrainians and Romani people.

[4] Their field training included killing operations at Szebnie.

[2][5] From February 1944, Szebnie was also the location of the Stalag 325 prisoner-of-war camp relocated from Stryj, and it held mostly wounded POWs and invalids.