Given name: Abraham Family name: Gepner (23)

(1)

a philanthropist; financed the purchase of a microscope

(2)

an industrialist, the chairman of the Union of Jewish Merchants, the chairman of the Economic Council of the ghetto

(3)

the chairman of the Supply Section, at the beginning of the July action arrested as a hostage. Detained at Pawiak. At the beginning of the uprising, some people from the Jewish Fighting Organisation (ZOB) gave him potassium cyanide

(4)

A member of Patronage at the 'Dobra Wola' boarding house, Dzielna Street No. 61, April 1942. A member of the Disposition Commission of the Department of Supply - December 1941.

(5)

The head of the Supply Section - when S. Ch. asked him what he thought about moving to the 'Aryan side', Gepner answered 'I can't desert'

(6)

Head of the Supply Section; during the uprising - in bunker at Franciszkanska Street No. 30; some people from the 'Aryan side' came to him with American papers for the Hotel Polski, but he didn't want to go claiming he was ill; hostage in October 1939, hostage on 22 July 1942. Tyszka: head of the Supply Section, subordinate to chairman Adam Czerniakow, active in the Jewish Social Self-Help (ZSS).

(7)

Head of the Supply Section. He secretly supported the resistance movement in the ghetto. From October 1942 he supported orphanage at Dzika Street No. 3. He died in the revealed bunker at Franciszkanska Street.

(8)

Kierownik ZZ.( Zakład Zaopatrzenia) przy Judenracie. Przed wojną był bardzo bogatym kupcem i prezesem licznego Związku Kupców.Był zasymilowanym Żydem. Przed wojną pomagał różnym żydowski instytucjom. Był przyjacielem Czerniakowa. W getcie był jedną z najbardziej znanych postaci. Był członkiem Społecznej Rady przy Joincie jako przedstawiciel Działu Zaopatrzenia.Lubił dzieci.Dużo pomagał Centosowi dostarczając jedzenia do domów dziecięcych.Dawał duże pieniądze organizacjom walczącym. Został zamordowany przez hitlerowców w czasie powstania w getcie w początkach maja 1943r. Miał 71 lat

(9)

A prewar 'king of steel'. Very rich, he could go abroad many times. He sent only his adult children. He was the head of provisions in the ghetto. In January 1943, he was organising a new Orphanage in Zamenhoffa Street (it was Germans' suggestion). Initially, the Orphanage abounded in food, at night 18-19 January it was liquidated, the children were taken to Treblinka. Gepner and his wife were shot next to the ghetto wall.

(10)

Before the war, the chairman of the Central Union of Merchants, during the war a vice-chairman of the Supply Section - a member of the Judenrat, arrested as a hostage on 22 July 1942. On 18 January 1942, released from the Umschlagplatz by Brandt. Short, rosy-cheeked, aquiline nose, bushy moustache

(11)

The main person in the Department of Supply. Deported on 18 January 1943 together with his family.

(12)

Judenrat member, head of the Provisions Office at Franciszkanska Street. He lived there with his wife. He died during the uprising. His wife was deported to Majdanek, died.

(13)

A big Warsaw ironware merchant. He was at the head of the Supply Section. He was killed during first days of May 1943, during the Ghetto Uprising.

(14)

a merchant, iron trade industrialist, Warsaw city councillor, economic
activist, worker for voluntary causes, philantropist. In the ghetto a member of the Judenrat, head of the Economic Department and the Supply Section. He secretly favoured the Jewish Fighting Organisation (ZOB). He broke occupation regulations getting provisions for people in the ghetto - mainly for refugees and children from children's homes. He did not take his friends' offer to cross to the 'Aryan side'. He died in a bunker uncovered by the Nazis at Franciszkanska Street No. 30.

(15)

The head of the Supply Section. Lived in Chlodna Street. Detained at Pawiak as a hostage on 21 July 1942.

(16)

Before the war 'king of the iron'; head of provisions; he helps as much as he can

(17)

a Judenrat member, the head of the Supply Section, a worker for voluntary causes and a philanthropist

(18)

The head of the Supply Section. Brandt appeared unexpectedly during his 70th birthday celebration in the Judenrat. During the January Action released by Brandt from the Umschlagplatz.

(19)

A wealthy Jewish industrialist. Arrested at the end of July 1942.

(20)

the head of the Supply Section

(21)

Well-known Warsaw merchant, industrialist, member of the Presidium of the Merchants' Union Headquarters, a Judenrat acivist, town councillor, philantropist, chairman of the the Supply Section in the ghetto's Council of Elders

(22)

member of the Judenrat, provisions

(23)

a well-known Warsaw merchant and industrialist, member of the Presidium of the Union of Merchants, activist of the Judenrat, town councillor, philantropist, later chairman of the Department of Supply in the Council of Elders in the ghetto

(2)

supposedly he used to write a diary - p. 227

(3)

He is mentioned also in the testimonies 301-2277 and 301-5006

(4)

Most probably - Abraham.
and official German documents: Iup2, Ringleblum's Archive, 91, p.5

(6)

not very tall, beautiful, sensible face, grey combed back hair, eagle nose and grey walrus moustache, wise eyes, wore cravat instead of a ties; and other testimonies: IIop2YV03/398, IIop2YV03/675 IIop2YV033/438, Iop2YV033/1216, Iop2YV033/2010, 163, Iop2YV033/1161

(7)

Probably he died during the Ghetto Uprising.

(10)

an outstanding man, one of these who are worth trusting.

(11)

A talented speaker, very popular in some ghetto circles. He displays nepotism in his department.

(2)

Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: the 'journal' of Emanuel Ringelblum; Emanuel Ringelblum’s work was edited and translated into English by Jacob Sloan, and published in New York by McGraw-Hill Book Company, cop. 1958 under the title Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: the 'Journal' of Emanuel Ringelblum

(3)

Gladsztern - Gwiazdowski, Jerzy; relacja 301-2098 (testimony 301-2098)

(4)

Documents from Ringelblum's Archive, part II

(6)

Tursz, M

(7)

Barski, Jozef; Przezycia i wspomnienia z lat okupacji (Experiences and Memoirs of the Occupation)

(11)

Adler, Stanislaw

(15)

Berg, Mary Dziennik z getta warszawskiego (Warsaw Ghetto Diary)

(16)

Winczakiewiczowa, Anna; Przezylam ( I survived)

(18)

name unknown

(19)

Kaplan, Chaim Aron; Scroll of Agony. The Warsaw Diary, transl. from Hebrew and ed. by A. I. Katsh

(21)

Czerniakow, Adam; Adama Czerniakowa dziennik getta warszawskiego. 6 IX 1939 - 23 VII 1942, (The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow)

(23)

Hartglas, Apolinary; Na pograniczu dwoch swiatow, ed, J. Zyndul (In between Two Worlds)

(1) ,256, (2) [129,251], (4) 96, s. 1 i Iup2, Ring II, 91, s. 5, (5) 24, (6) i inne relacje: IIop2YV03/398, IIop2YV03/675 , IIop2YV033/438, Iop2YV033/1216, Iop2YV033/2010, 163, Iop2YV033/1161, (7) [s., 16,, 40], (8) s.83-84,110, (9) 59, (10) , str.31,32,95- 97cz.2 str.82, 83, (12) 121, (13) s.173,283, (14) 112, p, (15) [s., 138,, 180], (16) 16, (17) 256, (18) [s., 111,, 207], (19) 298, (20) I, 197, (21) 46, (22) 49, 107