on 28 and 29 october 1941, four months after capturing the town, and 16days after the first mass murders in galicia at stanislavov the german police carried out a first "aktion" (german annihilation operation) in bolekhiv: about 1000 of the richer jews, doctors, and others including the rabbis, were taken from their homes, rounded up in the town square and marched to the "dom katolicki" - the catholic center at the north of the town, where they were tortured for 24hours, especially the rabbis, and many killed. they were then taken to the nearby taniawa forest where they were shot and dropped into a pit and then buried, many of them still alive.