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ANNE NOVAK
Anne Novak (nee Fink) passed away peacefully in her 100th year on January 24, 2024.
Born in Sanok, Poland in 1923, Anne was the second of five siblings born to an observant Jewish family. Her early years in Poland were happy, but life became bleak when Hitler invaded in 1939. Her family fled to the Russian controlled part of Poland seeking safety, but the Russians soon deported the family to a forced labour camp in Siberia. The war years were filled with hunger, but the family survived, happily finding their way to Winnipeg in 1948.
Anne married her beloved husband Oscar Novak and had her first child Carol. Oscar bought and ran various small grocery stores over the next 30 years with Anne often working by his side. Two more children, Phil and Allan, completed the family.
Anne’s best times were with family. Her siblings Sally, Sol, and Ruth were an important part of daily life and last year, they were designated by the Shoah Foundation as the oldest Holocaust survivor siblings in the world.
Anne was a wonderful cook who showered her family with tasty delicacies until well into her 90s, when she and her sisters, now widowed, moved into Shaftesbury Park Retirement Residence where she was an enthusiastic and well-liked resident .
She will be sadly missed by her surviving children and their spouses, Carol and Brian Sevitt, Allan Novak and Keely Sherman, her grandchildren and their partners, Julia Sevitt, David Sevitt and Alexa Abiscott, and Evan and Samantha Novak, and by her six great-grandchildren.
In memorium donations can be made to Jewish Child and Family Services of Winnipeg.
As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Feb 03, 2024, Feb 03, 2024
Condolences & Memories (2 entries)
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Grant’s Food Store was our grocery store for many years. Anne and Oscar were always friendly and helpful and were missed in the neighbourhood once they sold their store. - Posted by: Linda Nazer (I’m customer of Grant’s Grocery stitr) on: Feb 03, 2024
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Condolences to the family and friends of Mrs. Novak. As she was 100 years old and now into her 101st year, having survived the Holocaust and the horrors of war in her early years, clearly the world was a much better place with her in it and she will be missed by many. May she rest in peace. - Posted by: Bradley Pisiak (sender of condolences) on: Feb 03, 2024