Sadie Thelma Caplanski Lodz and Eastern Europe Samuel

Eastern Europe Samuel: His mother, who had been born Sadie Thelma Caplanski in Lodz, Poland, was 24 when her son was born; she had arrived in Toronto as a child of 8, brought by her parents, Samuel and Leah, who were fleeing the anti-Semitism that was rampant in Eastern Europe, according to Toronto Star. Samuel, who shortened the family name to Caplan when he arrived in North America, had run a successful business delivering coal in Lodz; he abandoned it amid ongoing theft from his employees that the police refused to stop. His family, like so many first- and second-generation families of Jewish immigrants in Canada and the United States, considered survival to be a form of triumph. He moved his family to Holland, and from there sailed to Canada. Frank Gehry as a child. When he settled in Toronto, he managed to open a hardware store. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.