Collective testimony of Moshe Chertok, born in 1901, and Shmerl Grinshtejn, born in 1892, regarding their experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Lublin and Auschwitz Work as firefighters in Bialystok, 01-24 August 1943; work burying bodies of Jews in pits which had been dug beforehand; resistance of members of the Jewish underground to the deportation; shooting directed at Germans by members of the Jewish underground; deaths of Germans; deaths of Jews; burning of houses in the ghetto; orders given by the Jewish police to dig pits for burial of murdered Jews, 17 August 1943; participation of Chertok and Grinshtejn in digging the pits; end of the "Aktion" under Friedel's command, 24 August 1943; approximately 3,000 Jews remain in the small ghetto including Barash, the Judenrat chairman, approximately three weeks before the liquidation of the ghetto; transfer to Lublin; transfer to Auschwitz; liberation by the Red Army, 24 March 1945.