„Jeżeli starłem choć jedną łzę…”- Abrahama Gepnera listy z getta warszawskiego
"If I Wiped Even Just One Tear …”- Abraham Gepner’s Letters from Warsaw Ghetto

Summary/Abstract: This article is Part II of the text published in „Dzieje Najnowsze” (2006, No. 1, p. 163-184). The reason it is being published is the discovery of a further part of Abraham Gepner’s correspondence to his family, which emigrated from occupied Poland around the end of 1939, in the collections of YIVO Institute of New York. The previous article contained seven letters by Gepner and his expanded biographical note, the first scientific contribution to his biography. In the previous article the author published seven Gepner letters and his extended biographical note, the first scientific contribution to his biography. This time the author focused on recently discovered letters, this time as many as 28 of them. Not all of them were penned by Abraham Gepner himself. Several of them were likely written by his wife, which is what their tenor and subjects suggest. Most of the persons mentioned in the correspondence remain unknown. Unfortunately, it has not been possible to contact Abraham Gepner’s relatives living in the U.S., which could help determine their identity. One exception was the famous Polish inventor Tadeusz Sendzimir. Similarly as in the previous part, these letters constitute a document of the times of the Holocaust and a testimony of the people who try to spare their relatives the suffering, by not mentioning the real tragic situation in the Warsaw Ghetto.

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