Overview by Pesach Kaplan regarding the Judenrat in the Bialystok Ghetto One-sided policy of the Judenrat in the Bialystok Ghetto including forced labor and following orders of the Germans in order to save the lives of the Jews of the ghetto; opposition of the Jews to the Judenrat's policy, preferring resistance and uprisings against the Germans; Kaplan's period of service as the ghetto archivist and the first editor of the ghetto newspaper; the practice of recording events that occurred in the ghetto; the practice of recording Judenrat activities until March 1943, including the attitude of the Germans towards the Judenrat, the Jewish police, trials held in the ghetto; the Finance Department, the Economics Department, the Labor Bureau, charity organizations, the Sanitation department, the Housing department, the ghetto economy, the Construction Department, education and culture in the ghetto; statistics and the Industrial Department; hiding of the truth regarding the murder of Jews in Poland from the Jews of the ghetto by the Judenrat members; deportation of the Jews to their deaths without resistance on their part because the truth was hidden from them.