Reizel Araten was born 15 January 1871 in Warschau. She was the daughter of Mordechai Marcus Araten and Chaja Scheindel Silberman. She was probably married in 1889 or 1890 in Warschau to Menachem Mendel Zangen, who passed away already at the age of 36 years in 1904.
As far as has been researched, the Zangen couple had seven children, of whom the first one, Chana Lieba, was born in Warschau on 1 J…