According to numerous testimonies, in the first half of July 1941 commanders of Sonderkommando 4b of Einsatzgruppe C ordered the former principal of a Jewish school, Marek Gottfried, to select 40 Jews from among the intelligentsia, ostensibly for the establishment of a Judenrat in Tarnopol. After the selected people refused to accept this role, they were taken to the Jewish cemetery, brutally beaten, and then murdered.
According to the testimony of Wladyslaw Gostynski, during the existence of the Tarnopol ghetto the head of the Security Police station in the city, Hermann Mueller, regularly took patients from the ghetto hospital to the Jewish cemetery and personally shot them to death.
The survivor Pessach Herzog testified that in early 1943, during a raid carried out by the Security Police in the Tarnopol ghetto, scores of Jews were caught by surprise, taken to the cemetery, and shot to death there.