Article by Dr. Szymon Datner regarding the liquidation of the Jewish community in Bialystok commemorating of the murder of 200,000 Jews from Bialystok and the vicinity Outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, 22 June 1941; mass escape of young Jews towards the East from the threat of the Germans; success of just a few in escaping to the Soviet Union; deaths of most of the escapees as a result of German shelling; occupation of Bialystok by the German Army, 27 June 1941; life under the German occupation including anti-Jewish legislation, robbery of property and murder of Jews; concentration of Jews in the Great Synagogue; setting the synagogue on fire together with 800-1,000 Jews who were inside; opening of an escape door from the burning synagogue by Jozef Bartoszko, the Polish guard at the synagogue; rescue of 19 Jews who escaped from the synagogue by Bartoszko; names of the Jews who were burned in the synagogue; "Aktions" in the Bialystok Ghetto; deportation of Jews from the ghetto over the course of approximately two years; murder of Jews in the ghetto over the course of approximately two years; liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto and ghettos in the vicinity, 16-23 August 1943.