The Yarun' ghetto was established soon after the occupation. The local Jews and ones from other villages of the county were put into some houses and the area was surrounded by barbed wire.
The first attempt to eliminate the ghetto population was taken on September 1, 1941. The Jews were collected and taken across the river, apparently, to the shooting site but, due to heavy rain, the operation was cancelled. According to some testimonies, shortly after that the ghetto commandant managed to persuade the German authorities in Novograd Volynskiy to keep the ghetto population alive to exploit their forced labor. Thus, the ghetto liquidation was postponed until late spring in 1942. In November 1941 several dozen work capable Jews were sent from the Yarun' ghetto to the camp in Novograd Volynskiy .
Some of the camp inmates managed to escape later. The surviving ghetto inmates were shot to death in early May 1942. Yarun' was liberated by the Red Army on January 7, 1944.