Report by P. Kaplan regarding the fate of Jews in the Bialystok Ghetto, April 1943 Occupation of Bialystok by the German Army, 23 June 1941; life under the German occupation including riots against the Jews, mortality among the elderly and children, hunger, murder of Jews, forced contributions and robbery of Jewish property; burning of the synagogue including Jews who were put inside the building; establishment of the ghetto, 01 August 1941; murder of approximately 200 members of the intelligentsia including physicians and teachers; "Aktion"; transfer of approximately 3,000 able-bodied youth to labor, July 1941; deportation of approximately 40,000 Jews to the ghetto; Judenrat activities in the ghetto including establishing schools and economic assistance; transfer of libraries and Torah scrolls to outside the ghetto by the Judenrat; arrest of approximately 60 Jewish lawyers; transfer of Jews to forced labor outside the ghetto; transfer of approximately 4,000 Jews to Pruzany, September 1941; acquisition of work certificates ("Sheinen") out of fear of deportation; levying of taxes and ransoms on the ghetto Jews [by the authorities]; deportation of approximately 900 Jews, February 1942; ghetto life including economics and trade inside and outside the ghetto, 1942; smuggling food items into the ghetto; running a "black market" of food items and clothing by the ghetto Jews; activities of the factories including economic assistance to the workers; a call to Jews to protect themselves and aspire to freedom.