Throughout the months of September to December, the so called Aktions (En. Actions) – the cleansings – were carried out intensively. During this time, thousands of people were taken out from the Ghetto and shot dead in Paneriai. Unemployable Jews were the first ones to be exterminated, thus by the end of October, the Small Ghetto had been liquidated – almost all Jews residing there had been executed. During the four months since the founding of the Ghetto almost half of its residents – 20 thousand Jews – were annihilated.The period from early 1942 to April, 1943, could be called “stable”, since mass arrests and executions ceased.