 During Habsburg rule some restrictions on Jewish settlement were lifted so that by 1880, there were 200 Jews living in Wojnicz and there was a synagogue.In 1939 during the Second Republic of Poland there were 35 Jewish families in Wojnicz.The German invasion of Poland led to most members of the Wojnicz community being rounded up in 1942 and taken to the Zakliczyn Ghetto from were they were transported to Belzec extermination camp.