In early April 1942, during the Passover holiday, the German Security and Order Police organized a large-scale deportation of Jews from Kolomyja to the Bełżec death camp. On April 4 and 6, in an attempt to speed up the eviction of Jews out of their houses and to force hidden Jews to leave their hideouts, the German security and order policemen set fire to the houses in the 2nd ghetto, around Mokra Street, and in the 3rd ghetto, bordering on the Mlynovka River. Many of the Jews were burned alive inside the houses, and those trying to get out were either shot dead or pushed back into the flames. Several hundred Jews from Kolomyja perished in the flames, or were shot dead inside the ghetto. During the murder operation of November 4, 1942, the procedure of torching the remains of the Kolomyja Ghetto was repeated. This time, too, several thousand people died in the flames, or were shot dead by German security and order policemen, and by Ukrainian auxiliary policemen.

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