On 2 July 1941, the city was occupied by the Nazis who led the Jewish pogrom, assisted by local Ukrainians. Several thousand Jews were murdered until the Germans ordered the program stopped. Between then and July 1943 when the entire Jewish population had been murdered, 10,000 Jews were murdered in the local environs by Germans and Ukrainians, another 6000 were rounded up and sent to Belzec extermination camp, and a few hundred others to labor camps. During most of this time Jews lived in the Tarnopol Ghetto. Many Ukrainians were sent as forced labour to Germany.