Dr. Hepner, a member of the Jewish Council (Judenrat), perished on November 1, 1942. He commit suicide the day before the Łomża ghetto was liquidated. According to one eyewitness, he was not married, and left behind only a mother and a young sister-in-law, with a child.

Here, see, one of the testimonies in the 301 (relacje) collection at the Jewish Historical Institute, at ZIH, 301/2267, testimony of Liza Bursztyn, p. 2 (in Polish). "Dr. Jozef Hepner 1-go listopada w szpitalu odebral sobie zycia, byl w niemieckiej niewoli, znal dobrze ich metody. Zostawil podobno list z prosba, zeby ludzie za opiekowali sie jego matka i mloda bratowa z dzieckiem." Quickly translated: "On the first of November, Dr. Jozef Hepner took his life in the hospital. He was in a German prison" [with some liberties in translation here. He had been imprisoned in September 1939 in the first German pacification action and had not been among the prisoners released in 1940 to the Soviet-occupied zone. He escaped.] "He knew their methods well. He left a letter with the request that people take care of his mother and his young sister-in-law with a child."

I have read somewhere, perhaps at ŻIH, 301/735, testimony of Izaak Wiernik p. 6, that the director of the Jewish hospital, Dr Menkes survived the war, but I have not yet confirmed this was the case. Here is what Wiernik says, from the Polish translation: "Z pośród innych zbiegów uratowali się pojedynczych osoby: dr. Menkes." Roughly translated: From among the others who ran away [escaped the ghetto's liquidation] only single individuals saved themselves [survived]: dr. Menkes.

I also remember reading, perhaps in one of the testimonies of Abraham Śniadowicz, from Miastkowo, that another doctor from Łomża may have perished, in hiding. One of the Śniadowicz testimonies, is available in Polish translation in Wokół Jedwabnego, volume (tom), 2.I do not know if this is the right one. If you are still searching, I can look at the other two Śniadowicz testimonies (in Yiddish) to see what I can find there.

Szapiro (Shapiro in English) is a common name. There is a memoir by Chaim Shapiro, Go my Son. Only a small part of the memoir is about Łomża. He does not mention any doctors. However, the Shapiros were prominent members of the Łomża community, so perhaps there is some connection?

I have seen the surname Gołąbek, also a common name, listed in Monkiewicz's work, "Za cenę życia," in Białostoccy Żydzi, vol. 2, p. 203. He is mentioned in a testimony of a Christian, Stanisław Paluszko, from Łomża, at IPN-Białystok. Paluszko hid Gołąbek for a brief time. Gołąbek survived the war and emigrated, settling in the USA.

There is a brief mention of the hospital in the Łomża ghetto in the memoir entitled, The Red Forest, translated from the Hebrew, about Czerwony Bór, but it does not mention anything specific in terms of names.

A better suggestion might be the book about Jewish physicians murdered in the Shoah, written in English in the 1960s. I have not looked at the book for a long time, and do not have a reference in front of me. The book lists many names of Jewish doctors, their prewar training, where they worked during the war, and whenever possible, the circumstances of their deaths.

Sorry I could not be of more help.