On October 12-14, 1942, German Gendarmes, with the assistance of Ukrainian auxiliaries, carried out the systematic destruction of the ghetto in Misocz, a medium-sized town that until the 1939 had been located in eastern Poland. As a result of the 1939 campaign, Misocz and its environs became part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. German soldiers occupied the town soon after the launch of "Operation Barbarossa" in June 1941. A ghetto was formed to "concentrate" Jews in the town and nearby villages. The German policemen and Ukrainian auxiliaries surrounded the ghetto on October 12; the inhabitants fought back and during the fighting about half of the ghetto inhabitants were able to flee; on October 14, the remaining captives were transported in trucks to a secluded ravine in the nearby Sdolbunov district and shot.