 Most killings took place between 29 October and 1 November 1942 by Police Battalion 306 of the German Order Police, and other units.It was the second largest mass shooting operation in a single settlement to that particular date during the Holocaust, after Babi Yar where the death toll exceeded 33,000 Jews.The Babi Yar shootings were surpassed only by the Nazi "Aktion Erntefest" of 3 November 1943 in the Lublin district with 42,000–43,000 Jews murdered at once over execution pits, dug specifically for this purpose.