On the 28th of August 1944 Azriel Tunik wrote to his brothers Noah and Yitzchak in Eretz Israel:

"My dear, beloved Yitzchak, Manya and Yigalka, After four years in which we have not heard from each other I have the first difficult opportunity to write to you, my dear beloved ones. After much suffering and trouble, and after terrible hardships and atrocities that have never been known in human history, I am writing a letter to you today, my dears. I have struggled over what to write to you. I have decided to write the truth, as terrible and as bitter as it will be. I assume that you have heard and read everything that it was decreed that we should undergo. Everything that you have heard is just the tip of the iceberg. At the moment I am not in a state that I can write all the details, maybe in the next letter. Of our beautiful, good family just myself, your brother Azriel and our dear sister Chava are left. It is very upsetting but that is a fact. From the three thousand Jews of Stolpce there are only about a hundred souls remaining. There are families who have been completely wiped out. See for yourselves my dears that from the entire Tunik family in Stolpce only Chavale and I are left. I am still hopeful about our brother Pessach. He fell into German hands and translated for them. In June 1942 we were still in contact with him. My dearly beloved, I ask that you reply to me immediately. I am sending this to Manya's old address that I remember from before. At the moment I am a few days away from Moscow. I will also send you a telegram. I will now write briefly about myself and about Chava. Chava was a partisan for two years. I didn't know anything about what was happening to her for two years. I also suffered a great tragedy. I tried to save my loved ones but I was unable to do so. Chava disappeared with another group on the day of the pogrom and the connection between us was lost. After the liberation I found her thanks to the Red Army. Both of us had gone to Stolpce. Nothing remains of Stolpce, neither the people nor the houses. Now we have only one aim, revenge. Nothing else interests us. Our lives have been shattered forever. We are no longer normal people. It is impossible to be human after so many tragedies. I ask of you, my dears, one thing, be strong and don't break. You are our entire hope and apart from you we don't have anyone. Write to us about yourselves, where are you at the moment and how are you getting on? I promise that my next letter will be more detailed. My dear Manya I'm sure that you want to hear about your close ones, once again I hesitated, but I have decided to write the truth. None of them are left alive. Be strong my dear. I can imagine what a shock my letter will cause but our situation is worse, we experienced it ourselves and saw it all with our own eyes. I am not in a state of mind to write any further. Be strong and healthy and remember us. Send a letter to my address in Stolpce. Best wishes to you from Chavale, she is in Stolpce and I am returning to her in a few days."

Chava moved to Eretz Israel in 1946 as did Azriel a year later. They both established families in Israel. Noah and Yitzchak's daughters came to Yad Vashem and gave the letters to Yad Vashem for posterity as part of the "Gathering the Fragments" campaign.