Report by Pesach Kaplan regarding the Judenrat in the Bialystok Ghetto, 1941-1942
Occupation of Bialystok by the Germans, 1941; appointment of a Judenrat under the leadership of Rabbi Gedalia Rosenman; Rosenman's resignation; appointment of Efraim Barash, the engineer, as Judenrat Chairman; appointment of 24 Judenrat members; relaying orders from the Germans to the ghetto population by the Judenrat; establishment of the Jewish police by the Judenrat; police activities; Judenrat activities including providing food to the ghetto population, drafting Jews for forced labor and giving social assistance to the...