Hi Stephen
Sorry for your loss. I was touched by your post and disappointed your eulogy, which I’m sure was a moving one, could not be attached. Is it possible for you to send it to me?
I was also interested by your mention of the Bukovina Society in NY. Had never heard of it. Can you tell me about it? Maybe provide me a way of connecting with them?
Warmest regards
Rick Held
> On 25 May 2020, at 2:03 pm, Czernowitz Genealogy and History digest <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu> wrote:
>
> CZERNOWITZ-L Digest for Monday, May 25, 2020.
>
> 1. [Cz-L] from Dr. Stephen Winters
> 2. [Cz-L] 1944-1946
> 3. [Cz-L] Stewart (Sigi Schapira) Winters Eulogy
> 4. [Cz-L] Anyone around who is researching family/genealogy of Rabbi Adolph Gedali
> 5. Re: [Cz-L] Stewart (Sigi Schapira) Winters Eulogy
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: [Cz-L] from Dr. Stephen Winters
> From: Stephen Winters <drstevewin_at_gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 00:06:54 -0400
> X-Message-Number: 1
>
> My father, Stewart passed away this past Thursday. In Czernowitz, he was known as Sigi Schapira., since his paternal grandparents in Brezhany, Galicia, only had a religious and not civil marriage and he was forced to use his paternal grand mother's last name at birth. The last name had been Vinter in Brezhany, but following the lead of a cousin, he changed it to Winters when he became a US citizen. I am enclosing the eulogy I proudly wrote about him. He was a walking encyclopedia. In the 1960s-10980s he and my mother Blanka, who passed away this past October were active in the Bukovina society in NY.
>
> [Moderator's note: So sorry for your loss, Steve. Your message came with an attachment, but we can't send attached files through the list, so it was removed. Please share via the Ehpes blog <http://ehpes.com/blog1/>. Moderator Bruce]
>
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>
> Subject: [Cz-L] 1944-1946
> From: Boris Briker <boris.briker_at_villanova.edu>
> Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 12:30:53 +0000
> X-Message-Number: 2
>
> --_000_MN2PR03MB51676640C5D40ACD5EDC5FFE86B20MN2PR03MB5167namp_
>
> Dear Czernowitsers,
> Do you know how people returned to the Soviet Ccernovitsy after the war, i=
> n 1944--1946? Where did they come from then? By what transportation? If by=
> train how did they get from the station to places? Did they try to get int=
> o their former houses, apartments etc? I need this info for a little book =
> of fiction in Russian about Chernovitsy after the war.
>
> Boris
> boris.briker_at_villanova.edu
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>
> Subject: [Cz-L] Stewart (Sigi Schapira) Winters Eulogy
> From: Stephen Winters <drstevewin_at_gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 10:17:39 -0400
> X-Message-Number: 3
>
> --000000000000d90c5905a6658662
>
> comments on behalf of my sister Marilyn and myself [Stephen Winters].
>
> Siegfried (Stewart) Schapira Winters, our father, husband of Blanka (of
> blessed memory) for 73 years, grandfather of Lenny, Tamar, and Elana, great
> grandfather of Frances, our hero, was a man of utmost integrity, compassion
> and kindness.
>
> Born in Vienna, Austria in 1924. He moved to Czernowitz, Bukovina, Romania
> at age 5 after his father left his mother. She was hired as an
> administrator at the Jewish Orphanage where they lived together in one
> room. He excelled in school (L3) and had loving uncles Shmuel, Haskell and
> Noah, who together with his aunt Sophie, her husband, two other aunts, and
> numerous cousins who showered him with affection. He was born in the shadow
> of Hasidism, his family having been devout followers of the Sadagora,
> Ruzhin sect. He was recognized as having a photographic memory, attended
> the ORT school, worked as an apprentice in a machine shop, and lived in the
> apprentice dormitory as a teenager. He wanted to become a metallurgical
> engineer, but World War II broke out. He escaped to Russia and fled east
> through Kirgizistan and Kazakstan to Uzbekistan. Accused of being a spy he
> was locked in a jail. Sick with malaria, he nearly died. He physically
> fought to stay alive. When I was in college learning chemistry and how
> steel is manufactured, he taught me the process, explaining that he worked
> in a steel mill in middle Asia during the war. He would not speak much of
> the horrors he witnessed or trauma he suffered. After the war he returned
> to Czernowitz.
>
> As the Russians were clamping down on Czernowitz, he helped his mother and
> several cousins escape to Bucharest. There he met Blanka, the love of his
> life. He asked her to marry him stating that he never had a true family,
> and wanted to start one with her. He loved Blanka. He was her knight in
> shining armor, who protected her after the horrors she had been through
> during the war. They fled to Prague and onto Paris as the Russian were
> closing in. Marilyn was born and the Korean war broke out. Fearing another
> deportation of Jews, he discovered he had cousins of his father in the
> United States. This family, the Waltuch family, sponsored the three of
> them to immigrate here. The boat=E2=80=99s engine broke off Halifax and the=
> y were
> stuck at sea as Passover approached. He figured out who to have the ship=E2=
> =80=99s
> captain radio in Halifax and arranged a seder for the Jewish passengers
> aboard. After a few weeks in New York, they moved to Houston, Texas. But as
> the Polio epidemic was active there and Blanka was pregnant with me the
> fled back to New York.
>
> Sigi worked day and night delivering television on his back up six flights
> of stairs. Then he discovered the truck parts business. His photographic
> memory and knowledge of ten languages helped him develop a successful
> international business. He worked hard and was known in his field as the
> person to go to when heavy parts could otherwise not be located. Whether it
> was a construction contractor or the Mack Truck company, Sigi was the
> person who would solve their problems.
>
> As a father, he was warm, affectionate, kind, generous, loving, protective,
> and when necessary stern. As a child, he took me to shul ever Saturday,
> took me to amusement parks, vacationed with us in Long Beach, New York, and
> found the means to send Marilyn and I to summer camps. As adolescents and
> young adults, he generously allowed Marilyn to go repeatedly to Europe and
> Israel. He was our protector and defender. When I had serious troubles in
> school in second grade, he would not let me go back until a better
> arrangement was made, having me accompany him to work and taking me to
> Palisades amusement park. He was fearless and always
>
> He helped support him mother and aunt who settled in Israel after the war.
> His love of Israel and his religion was solid. protected us spiritually and
> physically. Stewart was a man of the utmost integrity and respect.
> Although his father left him as a little boy, he never forgot him. He
> learned he had been shot dead point blank by Nazis during an Action in his
> home town of Brezhany, Galicia, Poland. He would always say kaddish for him
> and insist on having an Aliyah in synagogue to honor his memory on Yom
> Kippur. He even named me Shlomo after his father. Ultimate respect.
>
> He enjoyed supporting the Rizhina yeshiva in Jerusalem, maintaining a
> long-lasting bond in his family lineage. He was honest in business and in
> the way he conducted all his activities. He was my hero and Marilyn=E2=80=
> =99s hero
> too. He was brilliant with great knowledge of history, geography, and
> languages. He would complete the New York Times crossword puzzle in under
> an hour daily. Even during the past two years, he would try to complete the
> puzzle, answering clues which I could never fathom knowing. Two important
> things he told me have always stuck: 1. When someone comes up to you in the
> street asking for money to eat, give him some money because he knew how bad
> it felt to be hungry; 2. Fitting to this Memorial Day weekend, he told us
> that when I meet someone who served in the U.S military thank him for what
> he did, since were it not for him we would not be here today.
>
> When the chips were down and I was fearful of potential serious problems,
> he would say =E2=80=98you should never die in anticipation of dying=E2=80=
> =99. He would
> remind us that during the most despairing times in World War II, when
> things were as bleak as could be, he would get new hope when the sun would
> shine. He like our mom believed that =E2=80=98tomorrow will be a better day=
> =E2=80=99.
>
> SIgi had fine taste and enjoyed quality rather than quantity. He and Blanka
> loved traveling through France and Europe with Marilyn and Eric. He could
> spend hours playing Bellot with Eric. He could take time over weeks
> examining fabrics before picking the best suit to wear on Shabbat to shul.
> He loved to buy quality jewelry, scarfs and clothing for Blanka. He loved
> fine food and had specific tastes. He would eat a cheese Danish each
> morning with breakfast, but it had to be from Grunebaum=E2=80=99s bakery in
> Riverdale. When his health began to fail and he had to move out to New
> Jersey with my mother, Shelly 9my wife) and I would go to Grunebaums kosher
> bakery every other weekend to stock up on these cheese danish. No matter
> how gourmet, no other bakery would do.
>
> We are eternally indebted to Eddie Mosberg and his family for enabling Sigi
> and my mom to move to New Jersey in a flash when their health was failing.
> We are extremely grateful to the women who helped our father day and night
> =E2=80=93 Marcia, Layla, Hazel and Marva. We thank the many doctors who hel=
> ped him
> survive to 95 =C2=BD despite having had two malignancies, bypass surgery, a
> heart attack, repair of an abdominal aneurysm, gallstone pancreatitis, and
> more. We are especially appreciative of the nurses at Morristown Medical
> Center who took care of our father in the kindest, caring way possible. We
> thank Rabbi East and Debbie Pfeiffer for their spiritual guidance and
> support of Sigi as well as us. Needless to say, Marilyn and I are eternally
> grateful for the kindness and respect Shelly has always shown to our father
> and recognize the Herculean manner in which she helped coordinate his care
> and provide for him. We recall how fond Sigi was of Shelly=E2=80=99s father=
> , Sam,
> who he looked up to, and enjoyed many hours conversing in Yiddish with.to
> Shelly for helping to coordinate every aspect of our father=E2=80=99s care
>
> We loved our father. He remains our hero and champion. He was our idol. He
> was the greatest, kindest, generous, loving father. Only now do we
> understand the divine providence with which he bought funeral plots
> alongside a road, enabling a minion, when only 3 other family members were
> permitted at graveside due to Covoid19 related restrictions. After much
> prodding of the cemetery director, the additional requisite number of men
> were allowed to stand alongside their cars in the road close to the graves.
> G-d was always with him and our mom. We know his essence and soul will live
> on forever through the thoughts, deeds and actions of Marilyn and myself,
> as well as those of Lenny, Tamar, Elana, Frances, and the future
> generations. We hope his soul will ascend quickly so he can join Blanka in
> watching over us from Gan Eden.
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: [Cz-L] Anyone around who is researching family/genealogy of Rabbi Adolph Gedali
> From: Saba Isio <sabaisio_at_gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 19:30:44 +0300
> X-Message-Number: 4
>
> --000000000000f8034105a66762d2
>
> Shavua Tov, Hodesh Tov, and Hag Sameah
> Wonder if there is anyone in the SAD CZ-L group who is researching
> family/genealogy of fellow Czernowitzer Rabbi Adolph Abraham Gedaly
> DOB 11 Sep 1856 DOD (and buried in Czernowitz) 28 August 1918
> (21 Elul 5678). He was the son of Arie Leibaleh Gedaly. (Gedaly might have
> been spelled in different/variant ways
> Thank you in advance, take care stay safe and healthy,
> Aizic Sechter
> Lone Star State of Israel
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Stewart (Sigi Schapira) Winters Eulogy
> From: Miriam Suss <msuss_at_bigpond.net.au>
> Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 07:13:25 +1000
> X-Message-Number: 5
>
> Stephen, what a loving and inspiring eulogy; wish you and your family long life and no further sorrow. How hard it is to lose such a wonderful parent, may the good memories comfort you and may his memory be for a blessing.
>
> Miriam Suss
> Melbourne Australia
>
>> On 25 May 2020, at 12:17 am, Stephen Winters <drstevewin_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> --000000000000d90c5905a6658662
>>
>> comments on behalf of my sister Marilyn and myself [Stephen Winters].
>>
>> Siegfried (Stewart) Schapira Winters, our father, husband of Blanka (of
>> blessed memory) for 73 years, grandfather of Lenny, Tamar, and Elana, great
>> grandfather of Frances, our hero, was a man of utmost integrity, compassion
>> and kindness.
>>
>> Born in Vienna, Austria in 1924. He moved to Czernowitz, Bukovina, Romania
>> at age 5 after his father left his mother. She was hired as an
>> administrator at the Jewish Orphanage where they lived together in one
>> room. He excelled in school (L3) and had loving uncles Shmuel, Haskell and
>> Noah, who together with his aunt Sophie, her husband, two other aunts, and
>> numerous cousins who showered him with affection. He was born in the shadow
>> of Hasidism, his family having been devout followers of the Sadagora,
>> Ruzhin sect. He was recognized as having a photographic memory, attended
>> the ORT school, worked as an apprentice in a machine shop, and lived in the
>> apprentice dormitory as a teenager. He wanted to become a metallurgical
>> engineer, but World War II broke out. He escaped to Russia and fled east
>> through Kirgizistan and Kazakstan to Uzbekistan. Accused of being a spy he
>> was locked in a jail. Sick with malaria, he nearly died. He physically
>> fought to stay alive. When I was in college learning chemistry and how
>> steel is manufactured, he taught me the process, explaining that he worked
>> in a steel mill in middle Asia during the war. He would not speak much of
>> the horrors he witnessed or trauma he suffered. After the war he returned
>> to Czernowitz.
>>
>> As the Russians were clamping down on Czernowitz, he helped his mother and
>> several cousins escape to Bucharest. There he met Blanka, the love of his
>> life. He asked her to marry him stating that he never had a true family,
>> and wanted to start one with her. He loved Blanka. He was her knight in
>> shining armor, who protected her after the horrors she had been through
>> during the war. They fled to Prague and onto Paris as the Russian were
>> closing in. Marilyn was born and the Korean war broke out. Fearing another
>> deportation of Jews, he discovered he had cousins of his father in the
>> United States. This family, the Waltuch family, sponsored the three of
>> them to immigrate here. The boat=E2=80=99s engine broke off Halifax and the=
>> y were
>> stuck at sea as Passover approached. He figured out who to have the ship=E2=
>> =80=99s
>> captain radio in Halifax and arranged a seder for the Jewish passengers
>> aboard. After a few weeks in New York, they moved to Houston, Texas. But as
>> the Polio epidemic was active there and Blanka was pregnant with me the
>> fled back to New York.
>>
>> Sigi worked day and night delivering television on his back up six flights
>> of stairs. Then he discovered the truck parts business. His photographic
>> memory and knowledge of ten languages helped him develop a successful
>> international business. He worked hard and was known in his field as the
>> person to go to when heavy parts could otherwise not be located. Whether it
>> was a construction contractor or the Mack Truck company, Sigi was the
>> person who would solve their problems.
>>
>> As a father, he was warm, affectionate, kind, generous, loving, protective,
>> and when necessary stern. As a child, he took me to shul ever Saturday,
>> took me to amusement parks, vacationed with us in Long Beach, New York, and
>> found the means to send Marilyn and I to summer camps. As adolescents and
>> young adults, he generously allowed Marilyn to go repeatedly to Europe and
>> Israel. He was our protector and defender. When I had serious troubles in
>> school in second grade, he would not let me go back until a better
>> arrangement was made, having me accompany him to work and taking me to
>> Palisades amusement park. He was fearless and always
>>
>> He helped support him mother and aunt who settled in Israel after the war.
>> His love of Israel and his religion was solid. protected us spiritually and
>> physically. Stewart was a man of the utmost integrity and respect.
>> Although his father left him as a little boy, he never forgot him. He
>> learned he had been shot dead point blank by Nazis during an Action in his
>> home town of Brezhany, Galicia, Poland. He would always say kaddish for him
>> and insist on having an Aliyah in synagogue to honor his memory on Yom
>> Kippur. He even named me Shlomo after his father. Ultimate respect.
>>
>> He enjoyed supporting the Rizhina yeshiva in Jerusalem, maintaining a
>> long-lasting bond in his family lineage. He was honest in business and in
>> the way he conducted all his activities. He was my hero and Marilyn=E2=80=
>> =99s hero
>> too. He was brilliant with great knowledge of history, geography, and
>> languages. He would complete the New York Times crossword puzzle in under
>> an hour daily. Even during the past two years, he would try to complete the
>> puzzle, answering clues which I could never fathom knowing. Two important
>> things he told me have always stuck: 1. When someone comes up to you in the
>> street asking for money to eat, give him some money because he knew how bad
>> it felt to be hungry; 2. Fitting to this Memorial Day weekend, he told us
>> that when I meet someone who served in the U.S military thank him for what
>> he did, since were it not for him we would not be here today.
>>
>> When the chips were down and I was fearful of potential serious problems,
>> he would say =E2=80=98you should never die in anticipation of dying=E2=80=
>> =99. He would
>> remind us that during the most despairing times in World War II, when
>> things were as bleak as could be, he would get new hope when the sun would
>> shine. He like our mom believed that =E2=80=98tomorrow will be a better day=
>> =E2=80=99.
>>
>> SIgi had fine taste and enjoyed quality rather than quantity. He and Blanka
>> loved traveling through France and Europe with Marilyn and Eric. He could
>> spend hours playing Bellot with Eric. He could take time over weeks
>> examining fabrics before picking the best suit to wear on Shabbat to shul.
>> He loved to buy quality jewelry, scarfs and clothing for Blanka. He loved
>> fine food and had specific tastes. He would eat a cheese Danish each
>> morning with breakfast, but it had to be from Grunebaum=E2=80=99s bakery in
>> Riverdale. When his health began to fail and he had to move out to New
>> Jersey with my mother, Shelly 9my wife) and I would go to Grunebaums kosher
>> bakery every other weekend to stock up on these cheese danish. No matter
>> how gourmet, no other bakery would do.
>>
>> We are eternally indebted to Eddie Mosberg and his family for enabling Sigi
>> and my mom to move to New Jersey in a flash when their health was failing.
>> We are extremely grateful to the women who helped our father day and night
>> =E2=80=93 Marcia, Layla, Hazel and Marva. We thank the many doctors who hel=
>> ped him
>> survive to 95 =C2=BD despite having had two malignancies, bypass surgery, a
>> heart attack, repair of an abdominal aneurysm, gallstone pancreatitis, and
>> more. We are especially appreciative of the nurses at Morristown Medical
>> Center who took care of our father in the kindest, caring way possible. We
>> thank Rabbi East and Debbie Pfeiffer for their spiritual guidance and
>> support of Sigi as well as us. Needless to say, Marilyn and I are eternally
>> grateful for the kindness and respect Shelly has always shown to our father
>> and recognize the Herculean manner in which she helped coordinate his care
>> and provide for him. We recall how fond Sigi was of Shelly=E2=80=99s father=
>> , Sam,
>> who he looked up to, and enjoyed many hours conversing in Yiddish with.to
>> Shelly for helping to coordinate every aspect of our father=E2=80=99s care
>>
>> We loved our father. He remains our hero and champion. He was our idol. He
>> was the greatest, kindest, generous, loving father. Only now do we
>> understand the divine providence with which he bought funeral plots
>> alongside a road, enabling a minion, when only 3 other family members were
>> permitted at graveside due to Covoid19 related restrictions. After much
>> prodding of the cemetery director, the additional requisite number of men
>> were allowed to stand alongside their cars in the road close to the graves.
>> G-d was always with him and our mom. We know his essence and soul will live
>> on forever through the thoughts, deeds and actions of Marilyn and myself,
>> as well as those of Lenny, Tamar, Elana, Frances, and the future
>> generations. We hope his soul will ascend quickly so he can join Blanka in
>> watching over us from Gan Eden.
>
>
> ---
>
> END OF DIGEST
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