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 Leah and Lemel Weigman Lemel was the third child of Ruchel and Isaac and he was born in 1866. He was lost in the Holocaust. Lemel married Leah and settled in Ostrovtzeh (Ostrowiec). We know only of the two youngest children of this family of six. |
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 Tzutel, Noech, Moshe Szyper and ? Tzutel, the fifth child of this family, married Noech Szyper in Europe and they emigrated to Brazil in 1925. They had a son Moyses, Moshe, who is the little boy in this picture. We cannot identify the young man. Noech died in 1987 at the age of 87. |
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 Tzutel and Moeshe Szyper Tzutel and Moshe go to another masquerade. Moshe is now an MD specializing in Orthopedics. He lives in Salvador Bahai, Brazil with his wife, Sarah. He has a son, Luis who is married to Patricia and a daughter, Ana.
Moshe, Sarah and daughter Ana at the 1989 Reunion -- sitting with his Aunt and cousins. |
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 Phillip Weigman and friend Fishel or Phillip Weigman was the young child of Lemel and Leah. Phillip was restless in Lodz. He went to Palestine with a friend but returned to Poland. |
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 Helen and Elizabeth Weigman Phillip married Elizabeth Margolis in 1932 and daughter Helen was born in Lodz . |
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 Helen, Elizabeth and Phillip Weigman In the late 1930's, Phillip, Elizabeth and Helen moved to Trinidad. They started looking for the Chicago family – apparently addresses were lost. The family provided the needed sponsorship and the Weigman family came to Chicago in January, 1941. They opened a small grocery store on Division Street near Ashland, a Polish neighborhood, to ease the language difficulty. It was a meager living and they worked hard. World War II broke out. Phillip took ill and died in 1945. |
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 1989 Reunion Elizabeth remarried and moved to New
York with Helen and Lola. The sisters-in-law, Tzutel Shipper and Elzabeth
Weigman lost contact. One of the unforgettable experiences of the 1989
Reunion was the few hours spent by Moshe Sziper and his family and
Elizabeth and her family. Moshe had brought an envelope stuffed with
pictures, letters and mementos. We identified many of the. Our greatest
thrill came when a Yiddish letter was given to Elizabeth and she cried
out, “This is my letter that I wrote to my sister-in-law, Moshe's
Mother.” It was a newsy letter, but also an appeal to maintain contact
and be friends and family. |
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