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Sarasota News Leader December 27, 2013 her recollection in a memoir, Keeping a Promise: To Tell My Story of Survival in Warsaw During World War II, which she self-published. Page 19 Guardian to Winkelman. Guardians are generally appointed to handle another person's personal, financial, health or property matters, if that person becomes unable to do so. In one court filing, Newman charged that Szychowski did so only to become "the sole Trustee of her multi-million dollar Trust." (Szychowski did not respond to a Sarasota News Leader voicemail.) Beverly Newman, the director of the Al Katz Center for Holocaust Survivors & Jewish Learning, calls Winkelman "brilliant," one of the most "vivacious" elders she's met — which, for Newman, makes a court ruling judging Winkelman incapacitated all the more In December, the court held a final incapacity hearing, appointing a guardian and effectively "distressing." closing the case. "In 30 minutes, Marie went In July, Robert Szychowski, who is married from someone who was capacitated to someto a daughter of Winkelman's second hus- one who had many of her rights taken away," band, asked a Sarasota court to appoint says Newman, who was alerted to the case in what is known as an Emergency Temporary August by a friend of Winkelman. Winkelman shows a visitor some of her paintings. Photo courtesy of Beverly Newman