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The
Winnipeg
Seligmans
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Left:
Samuel Seligman's obituary from the
Winnipeg Jewish Post,
February 19, 1953
Opposite, top: Marriage record for Samuel Seligman
and Bessie Greenberg in Winnipeg on December 18,
1909.
Opposite,
bottom: Bessie and Samuel Seligman in the 1930s. |
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 amuel
Sanders Seligman (1887-1953), a great-grandson of
Yankel, was orphaned at the age of
nine and went to live with an aunt. He made the trek
from Shchedrin to Winnipeg, Canada, where he went
into the wholesale fish business.
 He
met his wife-to-be,
Bessie Greenberg, in Winnipeg. As luck would have
it, she was also a Shchedrinner. Her family knew the
Seligmans from the old country, although Sam hadn't
ever met Bessie. They married in 1909, and in 1945
moved to Vancouver.
Sam's son Robert recalls his
father speaking very little to his children about
Russia. He did mention he had had a brother there
who was was married with a family. Life was difficult
for them, and Sam sent money once or twice a year.
 Sam
and Bessie had five children, all in Winnipeg. Some
went into the fish business. His
first cousin
Rose was one of
Feibish Seligman's children. |
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