In the 5 – 7 August 1941 massacre , 8,000 Jews were murdered just outside of Pińsk . The subsequent creation of the ghetto was followed – over a year later – by the murder of the imprisoned Jewish population of Pińsk , totalling 26,000 victims : men , women and children . Most killings took place between 29 October and 1 November 1942 by Police Battalion 306 of the German Order Police , and other units . It was the second largest mass shooting operation in a single settlement to that particular date during the Holocaust , after Babi Yar where the death toll exceeded 33,000 Jews . The Babi Yar shootings were surpassed only by the Nazi '' Aktion Erntefest '' of 3 November 1943 in the Lublin district with 42,000 – 43,000 Jews murdered at once over execution pits , dug specifically for this purpose
Aktion Erntefest
Aktion Erntefest
Pińsk Ghetto