After the war, Carl Safran returned to Calgary and began a teaching career, earning BA and MEd degrees from the University of Calgary. An educational psychologist, he received a Doctorate degree (EdD) from the University of Colorado, and led the Calgary Public School Board's first guidance and special education departments.

      In 1971, Carl Safran was named Chief Superintendent of Calgary Public School Board.

      Dr. Safran, now retired, remains active in special education, and in Jewish communal work. He is an Honorary Life President of the Calgary Hebrew School, and has served as Past President of Shaarey Tzedec Congregation.

      Please see under Srolovitz, Sanders and Sayles Families

      Originally from Russia, Sam Segall and his brother Adolph immigrated in 1911 to Bruderheim, Alberta, from Schenectady, New York.

      Their first prairie winter was severe, and the brothers became lost in a blizzard while driving a horse and carriage back to their homestead.

      Sam was snow-blinded. He moved to Calgary, while Adolf went to Great Falls, Montana. In Calgary, Sam Segall stayed with Jack and Esther Wise.

      On January 1,1918, Sam Segall and Bertha Hart married. Bertha Hart Segall was born in Romania about 1894. In 1906, at age 12, she came to Canada with her widowed father Moses Hart and her older sis- ter Sarah(Bercuson)

      For eight years, from 1912 to 1920, Bertha was secretary to Bob Edwards, publisher and editor of the Calgary Eye Opener. She wrote a defin- itive first-hand account of those years with the famous satrical newspaper- man.

      Later, in the 1930's, Bertha worked for her brother Jack Hart in his ladies'ready-to-wear store, Famous Cloak.

      The marriage of Bertha and Sam brought them two sons, Gordon Segall and Harold Segall.

      Henry Noah Sereth(1864-1944) of Zbaraz, Austria, arrived in Montreal in 1900. He had been in the lumber business in the old country, but spent his first few years in Canada at a variety of jobs.

      In 1905 Henry Sereth moved to Calgary, re-established himself in the lumber business and brought his wife and five daughters here. His brother Alexander joined him and they formed the Riverside Lumber Co.

      Their first Calgary home at 431 - 12th Avenue E. was filled with the hospitality of his wife Rachel(Rosa) Kleiner Sereth. Rachel was known for welcoming newcomers and helping them settle. Later they moved to an elegant brick residence on 24th Avenue S.W.;the building still stands as the front of the Scottish Nursing Home.

      Buisness flourished, and H.N.(as he became widely known) prospered. This allowed him to bring to Canada other family members, including his sister Esther's son Herman Nagler in 1911. (Esther Nagler, her husband Meier, and other Nagler children came to Calgary in 1913.)

      The Sereth Family were leaders in Calgary Jewish society and were like- ly the small community's wealthiest members. Archival records show the five Sereth girls and their parents were active in many communal, cultur- al and social activities.

      Rosa Sereth was a founder of the Calgary Symphony Orchestra and was a leader among the various Jewish women's groups. H.N.was a founder of the Beth Jacob Synagogue, and donated the lumber for its construction in 1911.

      By 1912 the Sereth-owned Riverside Lumber company operated several sawmills and forty retail lumber yards throughout B.C. and Alberta. The Sereths also had major construction and farm investments. At one time the businesses employed six hundred men.

      The company was forced into receivership in 1916, buy by 1922 H.N. and Alexander Sereth had rebuilt their fortunes. The brothers moved to Seattle, where they became major international lumber merchants. After more finan- cial ups and downs, H.N. retired in 1935, devoting part of his attention to helping German and Austrian relatives escape Nazi persecution.

      H.N. Sereth died in Seattle in 1944. His brother Alexander,10 years younger, remained active in the lumber trade in the north-west, living in Vancouver until his death in 1953.

      The daughters of Henry Noah and Rachel Sereth were: Sophie (Weinfield), Cecyle (Allen), Emily(Lieberman), Stella(Sameth) and Clara (Nieder).

      Sophie's husband, John J. Weinfield, was Calgary's first Jewish phar- macist. Harry J. Allan, Cecyle Sereth's husband, was one of four Allan brothers who, when the couple married, owned and operated some 60 theatres across Canada and the United States.

      Emily's husband, Moses(Moe) I. Lieberman, became a prominent Edmonton lawyer and was a governor of the Canadian Football League.

      Velya Shapiro and Yale Shapiro, brothers, originated with their fami- lies in the town of Surazh, Russia. They were two of the sons of Joseph and Shifra Shapiro.

      In 1911, several years after the death of his father, Velya left for Calgary as did tow of Yale's daughters, Reva and Ethel. Following his arrival in Alberta, Velya wrote to Yale to deter him from emigrating to the "trayfina medina"(unholy paradise). In 1913 Yale's children Sena, Sora and Morris came to Calgary.

      Yale Shapiro, his wife Leah, and the remaining children did not reach Calgary until 1922-24. By that time Velya Shapiro was also joined gradu- ally by his children and his wife Sarah.

      Velya worked first for the CPR and then as a junk dealer until 1927. Sarah Shapiro passed away in the 1920's, and Yale's wife Leah died in 1935. Both Families were active in Jewish communal work. Yale was active in the House of Jacob Congregation and the Hebrew School. The two brothers spent many hours in Talmudic study during their years in Calgary.

      Velya and Sarah Shapiro were the parents of six daughters and one son, Shlema. Their daughters were Eva Kredentser, Leah Hurov, Jenny Bercov, Sofy Levant, Bluma Wakoff and Reva.

      Yale and Leah Shapiro had Calgary's largest Jewish family: thirteen children - four sons and nine daughters. The Shapiro sons were Shlema, Morris, Joe and Bob. Their daughters were Sena, Sorah, Shuler, Reva Bercov, Ethel Libin, Shifra Ravvin, Rae Friedman, Edith Davis and Vera