Fonds 1065 - Charles and Ninel Segal Fonds

Charles Segal was born in Montreal on November 27, 1921 to Hyman Manuel Segal and Fanny (Moscovitch). Mr. Segal's fonds includes numerous details of his decades of work in the political world - from his days of journalism here in Canada and in the U.S., to his role in Histadrut, his meetings with President Truman and work with Oscar Ewing, his work with fair employment practices with the Construction Fund of the State University of New York and so on. Segal married his wife Ninel (Bercovitch) in 1979 and she also has been heavily involved in work in Congressman Mike McNulty.

Ninel Bercovitch Segal was born in Turkmenistan, then part of the Soviet Union, in 1926. She was the daughter of the painter Alexander Bercovitch and of the writer and communist militant Bryna Avrutick.

Her parents moved wither her to Montreal in 1926. She grew up in poverty, her father leaving the family for extended periods of time, and her mother working during the day as a teacher. She worked as a secretary, and was politically active, volunteering for Congressman Michael McNulty. She married Elias Schulman, and had two children with him. She was widowed, and remarried in 1979 with Charles Segal. During the course of her life, she lived in Montreal, Canada, and in New York, Virginia, and Rhode Island.