Testimony of Efraim Kissler, born in Bialystok, Poland, 30 September 1925, regarding the struggle by the Bialystok Ghetto fighters 1. Surrounding of the Bialystok Ghetto, 16 August 1943; combat by a group of fighters with live weapons against the Germans (listing of the names of the fighters); wounded and fallen on both sides; torching of a house in the ghetto by the fighters as a sign of the beginning of the fighting which went on for a whole day; unsuccessful attempt to escape outside the ghetto through an escape opening located at Ciepla Street in the ghetto; hiding of some of the fighters in a hiding place at Fabryczna Street for four days; the goal of the fighters was to transfer as many people as possible out of the small ghetto and to the forest and the partisans; 2. Details supplied by Efraim Kissler regarding the Jewish police in the Bialystok Ghetto.