(08.27-29.194)On these days, Jews faced a massacre in Kamianets-Podilskyi, in which 23,600 people died. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the Jews were politically active and comprised around 40% of the city's population. However, during World War I, the scene changed, and many Jews faced pogroms and victimization. When the Axis powers declared war on the Soviet Union, officials of the agency responsible for the foreign nationals living in Hungary decided to deport the foreign Jews, and also those who could not establish Hungarian citizenship. The Jews were loaded into freight cars and transferred across the former border of the Soviet Union, where they were handed to the Germans. Once in German hands, the Jews were marched from Kolomyja to Kamenets-Podolsk with their families. On August 27, detachments of Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) in Kamenets-Podolski, and troops under the command of the Higher SS and Police Leader General, Friedrich Jeckeln, began to carry out mass killings of the Jewish population.