sentences:  About 42,000 Jews in the General Government were shot during Operation Harvest Festival ("Aktion Erntefest") on 3–4 November 1943.At the same time, rail shipments were arriving regularly from western and southern Europe at the extermination camps.Shipments of Jews to the camps had priority on the German railways over anything but the army's needs, and continued even in the face of the increasingly dire military situation at the end of 1942.