In 1807 it was regained by Poles and included within the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw, and in 1815 it fell to the Russian Partition of Poland.

As punishment for the unsuccessful Polish January Uprising the tsarist administration stripped Władysławów of its town rights in 1870.

Władysławów was eventually restored to Poland when the country regained independence in 1918 following World War I.

After being terrorized and robbed by the occupying Germans and their local Polish helpers, in 1941 most were transported to a rural ghetto near Kowale Pańskie, and then in 1942 to the Chełmno extermination camp where they were gassed.

[4] In 1942, Nazi Germany carried out expulsions of Poles, whose farms were then handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.