 The serbs Partisans attacked the Croatian village during World War II, apparently citing a sizable Ustaše presence in the village to justify their attack.From the 9-10 September 1943, Partisan forces killed as many as 270 Croat civilians and burned the village down, together with the old Roman Catholic church of the Holy Cross, forcing many to flee.After the liberation of Yugoslavia, the communist regime relocated the remaining Croatian population to confiscated houses in Slavonia after it had exiled the Volksdeutsche Danube Swabians.