Writings of Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff: Proclamation calling for self-defense in the Bialystok Ghetto, 1943 Writing of the proclamation before the first "Aktion", January 1943; description of the extent of the catastrophe that has beset the Jews in the countries occupied by Germany including humiliation, torture and murder; a call to Jews not to believe Nazi propaganda; deportation of the deportees to their deaths in the crematorium and mass graves in the forests in Poland; forced labor will not rescue the laborers from death; a call not to go like sheep to the slaughter; a call to fight for life and to die with honor; a call to destroy all property before deportation and annihilation; a call to the youth to join the partisans and fight in an armed struggle against the Germans.