On this day, the Nazi Army established the Bialystok Ghetto in the Soviet Union, confining 50,000 Jews. The ghetto was divided into two sections, divided by the Biala River. Most Jews in the ghetto worked in forced-labor projects; Since the Jewish people owned three-quarters of Bialystok’s textile industry, before being taken from them due to World War II, they mostly worked in forced textile labor. In 1943, the start of mass deportations of Jews from the ghetto to the extermination camps arose. The Nazis deported 11,000 Jewish adults and children to concentration camps, including Treblinka, Blizyn, and Auschwitz. From August 16 to the 20th, the Jews resisted the deportations. The underground ghetto staged an uprising in an attempt to break out; over 100 Jews escaped and joined the partisan groups in nearby forests. The Red Army liberated the Bialystok ghetto in August 1944. The Jews of Bialystok , between both World Wars, comprised half of the Bialystok population, but by the end of WWII, only approximately 350 Jews remained.