 In the spring of 1940 several dozen Jews from the new ghetto were murdered in a forest on the outskirts of town.In June 1940 there were approximately 2,800 local Jews and another 1,000 refugees remaining in the ghetto.In January 1941 the Germans planned to move 5,000 Jews from the Kielce Ghetto to Chęciny in exchange for 2,500 Polish forced-labourers, but due to a typhus epidemic in the town, this plan was postponed.