In October 1942, Ukrainian Auxiliary Police and German policemen enclosed the ghetto; an uprising erupted, and the remaining inhabitants were mass murdered.

In 1897, the total population of the town was 2,662 with 1,175 Jews owning factories for felt, oil and sugar production, as well as the flour mill and sawmills.

[3] It was an urban community between world wars like many others in Kresy (eastern Poland), inhabited by Jews and Poles along with members of other minorities including Ukrainians.

There was a military school in Mizocz for officer cadets of Battalion 11 of the Polish Army's First Brigade;[4] the Karwicki Palace (built in 1790), Hotel Barmocha Fuksa,[5] a Catholic and an Orthodox church, and a Synagogue.

The photographs give clear evidence of the execution practice common during the Holocaust by bullet in Reichskommissariat Ukraine.

Two particular harrowing photographs show German police standing among heaps of naked corpses of women strewn on either side of the ravine.

[9]The archival description of the entire set of photographs by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) includes the following statements.

"[10] Photograph #17877: "Naked Jewish women, some of whom are holding infants, wait in a line before their execution by German Sipo and SD with the assistance of Ukrainian auxiliaries.

[12] Among the victims was Ukrainian carpenter Mr Zachmacz and his entire family, murdered along with the Poles because he refused to enter the fray.