[1] During the invasion of Poland in World War II, the German army took over the area on 7 September 1939.

In nearby Tarnów, some 40 synagogues and Jewish prayer houses were blown up and burned down before December.

From June 1942 until 1943, during the Final Solution, the Nazi Germans used the Buczyna forest in Zbylitowska Góra as a remote mass execution site.

[3] It is reported that small children who were not killed by gunfire or initial blasts were swung by their ankles into nearby rocks to ensure there would be no survivors.

[3] The Buczyna forest is the place of Jewish martyrology and the focus of ongoing archaeological research using non-invasive radar technology.