According to the 1921 census, the village had a population of 50, entirely Polish by nationality and Roman Catholic by confession.

[2] After the 1939 Invasion of Poland, German SS from Danzig (Gdańsk) and local German Selbstschutz members executed about 12,000 civilians,[3] mainly Polish and Kashubian intelligentsia from the Pomeranian Voivodeship, in the Darżlubska forest next to the village.

Among the victims were approximately 1,200 mentally ill persons from local hospitals,[4] killed in the course of the forced euthanasia policy dubbed Action T4.

An exhumation of mass graves was carried after World War II in 1946.

Sonderkommandos (forced prison labourers) from Stutthof concentration camp were used to cover up the tracks and were later executed.