Memoirs of Rabbi Halperin regarding his experiences in Orla, Poland and other places Jewish life in Orla before the outbreak of the war. Occupation of Orla by the Red Army on the Sukkot holiday (28 September) 1939; occupation of Orla by the German Army, 26 June1941; concentration of the Jews in the market square; orders of the Germans to report for forced labor; life in Orla including abuse of the Jews, confiscation of property, closing of synagogues and desecration of holy books; appointment of a Judenrat; establishment of a Jewish police; appointment of Scharf as mayor; imposing of decrees on the Jews by the mayor; robbery of Jewish property; yellow badge; levying of a forced contribution in lieu of executions of Jews; deportation of Jews to the Orla Ghetto; "Aktion", 02 November 1942; deportation of approximately 1,450 Jews to the Bielsk Ghetto; deportation of the Jews in railroad cars from Bielsk to a camp near Bialystok (name not mentioned); camp life including hunger and epidemics; transfer from the camp with his family, 01 February 1943.