Bernard(b.1948). Helen and Saul Dlin raised their three children - Arnold, Elliot and Bonnie - in Edmonton. Morris and Miriam Sanders' three children are Barry(b.1961), Alias(b.1962) and Harry(b.1966).

      The youngest Srolovitz brother, Morris (1900-1969) became a fur peddler and cattle dealer after moving to Calgary from the Rumsey farm. In the 1930's he owned the Calgary Brokerage Exchange, an 8th Avenue East second-hand and western goods store. By 1950 the business had become the Central Furniture Exchange.

      In 1927 Morris married Polly Ochman (b.1906), an immigrant from Russia. Polly expanded her business of renting rooms into a substantial apartment rental enterprise.

      Morris and Polly Srolovitz had three daughters, Sarah Lillian(b.1929) Bernice Bobze(b.1940) and Veida (1933-1939) who died in a tragic vehicle accident.

      Sarah was a student at University of British Columbia when she met and married Harry Wolfe(b.1927). They settled in Boston and raised four children - Mitchell, Zoe, David and Valerie.

      Bernice remained in Calgary, where she carries on the family's business interests and retains the family name, Srolovitz.

      All eight of the children of Jacob and Chaya Switzer settled in Calgary, most between 1925 and 1930. They came from the Polish town of Nowa Miasta and the nearby city of Radom.

      They were, in order of age, twins Mendle and Dinche, Sheindel, Rivka, Philip, Avrum, Frances and Harry.(Relche, a twin to Harry, died in infancy.)

      Sheindel (b.1907) was the first to emigrate to Calgary in 1926. The next year he married Rifka Aizenman. There were four sons: Israel (Sruki) of Toronto, married first to Phylis Maerov and now to Bryna Levine; Albert (Tobey Shwakman), Edmonton;twins Henry, of Calgary, and Jack (Shauna Fromson) of Calgary.

      Mendle was a cattle dealer for some years, and processed kosher poultry. He later ran Hillside Grocery and a wholesale fish business. Mendle died in 1982, Rifka in 1986.

      Dinche (b.1900) married Zisman Groner in Poland and moved with her young family to Paris in the 1930's. Their oldest son, Alter, died near the end of World War II. The remainder of the Groner family survived; most came to Calgary in 1948.

      Zisman Groner ran a retail produce business for many years at the City Hall Market. He died in 1972. Dinche passed away in 1994.

      Their children were Alter, Rosa(d.1993, Steven Dudelzak), Helen (Albert Weisz), Annette (Leon Krygier, Mark Uram), Charles(Terry Brod), Jack (Jean Ert) and Teresa (Lionel Tucker). Helen lives in Los Angeles;the other Groner sons, daughters, and in-laws emigrated to Calgary.

      Rivka (Rose) Switzer (b.1911) married Zyshe Zysblat shortly after her arrival in Calgary. He ran the Winnipeg Second Hand Store on 8th Avenue E. until his death in 1957. Rivka died in 1960.

      The Zysblat's had three children, Ida, Miriam and Allen. Ida married Aaron Eichler;both are prominent in Calgary Jewish communal affairs. Miriam (Al Creemer) lives in Dallas, Texas. Allen (Linda Feldstein) has lived in Israel for many years.

      Philip (Phishel) worked as a tailor at armed forces bases in Calgary and Edmonton. He married Helen Joskowicz;they had three children. Irving (Sonny) married Clarice Flaxman and is a Calgary realtor. Jack (Sheila Burnstein), a Vancouver lawyer, died in 1971. Elva, of Calgary, is now married to Gerald Mertick.

      Philip Switzer married Manea Goldman in Calgary after the death of his first wife. He died in 1985.

      Avrum (Abraham) Switzer married Sadie Morris in Calgary in 1932; they had one son, Bernard. Avrum was a cattle dealer, and died, tragically, while on a buying trip in 1942. Sadie later married Jack Stone, and died in 1980.

      Bernie Switzer, married to Hessie Brovender, is an insurance underwriter in Calgary.

      Frances (Feige) Switzer came to Calgary to join her brothers and sisters in 1930. She married Morris Huberman in 1932. They operated a grocery store for many years, and moved to Vancouver in 1950's.

      Their two sons, David Huberman(Rowena Kantor) and Jack Huberman (Jeanette Dewitt, Evelyn Ulman) are both prominent Vancouver lawyers.

      Frances has travelled widely since the death of her husband, and recently visited her birthplace in Poland.

      Harry Switzer (b.1916), the youngest brother, came to Calgary as a teen, worked as a tailor, and later ran Star Cleaners. In 1943 he married Sari Rosenbaum.

      Sari and Harry had three children. Carol Switzer married Yoav Sahian and lived in Israel for many years before the family returned to Calgary, where she now teaches. Jarold(Sari Kaplan) is a Calgary lawyer. Another son, Jack, died in 1960 in an auto accident that also claimed his father and aunt Rivka Zysblat.

      Chaya, wife of Jacob Switzer, died in Poland in the late 1920's. Jacob then came to Calgary, where he lived with Mendle and Rifka until his death in 1936.

      Almost all Jacob's family were strong Peretz School supporters and many were active in the Shaarey Tzedec Congregation. Their contribu- tions to the Polish Jewish Family Loan Association are well documented; the twenty-one founders included Philip, Mendle and Avrum Switzer, and brother-in-law Zyshe Zysblat.(Thirteen others were cousins or uncles.)

      None of Jacob Switzer's sons or daughters became really rich or really famous. But they were able to run their small businesses well enough to put their children through school, and to support their schools, synagogues and communal organizations. They overcame poverty-stricken European childhoods, a devastating depression, uncertain war years, and the hardships that face every immigrant in a strange new land.

      How? Faith, fortitude, and family.

      Mendel was the oldest son of Wolf Baer Switzer, patriarch of the Switzer family. He married Bella Rosenzweig in 1887;only five of their ten children survived. All came to Calgary from Radom, Poland, between 1912 and 1923.

      Mendel helped raise his sister Bella, who came to Canada with her hus- band Osher Singer in 1905.

      As soon as she was able, Bella Singer started to bring her family to Calgary. The first to come,14-year-old Charlie Switzer (b.1898) was the third son of Mendel and Bella.