 1948 "Tunkel" publishes his last book "Der Groyser Genits Oder a Nudner Tag in Nyu York" ("The Great Genius or an Annoying Day in New York").His last work of literature is an article for the Lithuanian Yizkor Book Lite "The Chapter of Vilna in my Life" which is published posthumously in 1951.His physical health shattered by his experiences in the French camps, he spends the last several years of his life ill and nearly blind.