Testimony of Chaim Orszanski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1928, regarding his life in the Bialystok Ghetto and in camps in Germany Occupation of Bialystok, 26 June 1941; riots and the burning of 28 city streets; witness works as a housepainter for an SS unit; abuse of inmates; establishment of the ghetto, 01 August 1943; forced labor under harsh conditions; abuse of the workers by Baranchok, the Polish foreman; transport of Jews to various job assignments by the Judenrat labor office; extermination of the Jews from the areas outlying Bialystok, 01 November 1942; the first "Aktion" in the Bialystok Ghetto, 05 February 1943; in hiding in an attic with his family; discovery of the hiding place by Salomon, a Jewish policeman; concentrating of those who had hidden in the ghetto square; deportation of the Jews in railroad cars; escape from the railroad cars; arrival of the transport in Auschwitz; selection; separation of 65 men from the transport and their transfer to Birkenau; sending the remaining deportees to the gas chambers; sub-human conditions in Birkenau; transfer to Auschwitz six weeks later; labor as a housepainter in the camp; transfer to Jaworzno two months later; labor mining coal and afterwards as a welder until the evacuation of the camp; 17 January 1945; death march by the inmates, falling aside of the sick and the weak; arrival in Blechhammer of approximately 2,000 Jews out of the 5,000 inmates who started the march; approach of the front; mass escape of inmates from the camp; shooting of some of the escapees by the Germans; in hiding in the forests in the area with a number of Jews from Bialystok until liberation by the Red Army, 02 February 1945.