During the murder operation of November 4, 1942, a large group of Jews from Kolomyja were taken to the prison, where they spent the night, before being sent on to the Sheparovtsy Forest to be shot. That same night, the Jews who were unable to walk – mostly elderly and sick people, as well as small children – were shot in the prison courtyard.

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On Sunday, October 12, 1941, Hoshana Raba (the penultimate day of the Sukkot holiday), German security and order policemen, together with Ukrainian auxiliary policemen, surrounded the area where most of the Jews of Kolomyja lived at the time. They proceeded to round up Jews from the synagogues and residences, and they also arrested a number of Judenrat officials and visitors to the Judenrat offices. A total of about 3,000 people, of various ages and of both sexes, were rounded up and taken to the prison on Romanovski Street. They were held there for some time, without food or water, being abused and tortured by the Ukrainian guards. They were then led in groups to a forest near the village of Sheparovtsy, some eight kilometers northwest of Kolomyja, where they were shot dead at mass graves that had been dug in the area of an abandoned munitions depot. The firing squad was made up of local security policemen, urban policemen, and Ukrainian auxiliaries. In late 1941 and 1942, the Sheparovtsy Forest served as the murder site of several thousand Jews from Kolomyja. On November 6, 1941, on the pretext of a search for a fugitive Soviet Jewish policeman, the German police rounded up several hundred Jews of various ages and of both sexes in the Mokra Street area, took them (some directly, and others after a stay in prison, as in the previous massacre) to the forest near the village of Sheparovtsy, and shot them dead. On December 23, 1941, some 1,000 Jewish refugees from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia, along with Jewish deportees from Hungary, were taken to the Sheparovtsy Forest (after a brief stay in prison) and shot. On January 24, 1942, the German Security Police rounded up a large group of Jewish notables from Kolomyja, along with Jewish professionals, imprisoned them for a time, and then took them to the Sheparovtsy Forest to be shot. On November 6, 1942, during the so-called “Hallerbach murder operation” (named after the German Security Police officer responsible for the property left behind by the murdered Jews), the Jews who had been tasked with collecting and sorting through the abandoned property, together with some Jews who had been seized at random in the ghetto, were incarcerated, and then taken to the forest near Sheparovtsy and shot. On December 13, 1942, members of the Judenrat and the ghetto police, along with a number of Jews who had been gathering raw materials for the Germans, were taken to the Sheparovtsy Forest and shot dead; according to several testimonies, the ghetto policemen were forced to shoot each other. On February 1, 1943, the family members of the Jewish artisans, as well as the Jews of Kolomyja who had been deemed "unfit for work," were taken to the Sheparovtsy Forest and shot.

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On October 11, 1942, during the large-scale deportation of the Jews of Kolomyja to the Bełżec death camp, the orphanage on Mokra Street, which housed Jewish children who had lost their parents in previous murder operations, was liquidated. Some of the orphans either hid away or were hidden; several dozen others were deported to Bełżec, while about twenty of the youngest children were shot dead in the orphanage by German security or urban policemen.

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In the summer of 1942, or during the murder operation of October 11, 1942 (according to various testimonies), Friedrich Knackendoeffel, a senior officer of the Criminal Police in Kolomyja, singlehandedly shot twenty Jewish orphans who were staying at the ghetto hospital on Copernicus Street, which operated under the auspices of the Jewish Council. The shooting took place in the hospital garden. During the murder operation in Kolomyja on November 4, 1942, officers of the Kolomyja Security and Urban Police liquidated the ghetto hospital, shooting the bedridden patients in their beds and killing the patients who were able to walk in the hospital garden.

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On October 12, 1942, some 100-200 Jews (different testimonies give different figures) – mostly women, children, and elderly people – were taken by the ghetto policemen to a building that had formerly served as a kosher poultry slaughterhouse. They were then shot in the slaughterhouse attic by men of the Security Police office in Kolomyja, or by Ukrainian auxiliary policemen.

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In the course of 1942 and in early 1943, Jewish escapees from the Kolomyja Ghetto who were caught, along with inmates who tried to hide inside the ghetto and were discovered, would be taken to the Jewish cemetery of Kolomyja and shot dead. In early March 1943, after the town had been officially declared “free of Jews,” the very few Jewish shoemakers and tailors remaining in Kolomyja, together with several Jews who had been discovered in hideouts, were taken to the Jewish cemetery and shot by German urban and Ukrainian auxiliary policemen.

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According to the testimony of Josef Wrublewski, a Polish resident of Kolomyja, a massacre of Jews took place on Herzen Street during one of the murder operations in the town, when a group of Jews were being led away to their deaths – either in the Sheparovtsy Forest or at the Bełżec death camp. The Jews who were exhausted and unable to walk on were gunned down by the guards in that street, through which they were passing. Both the date of this massacre and the identity of its perpetrators remain unknown.

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