Samuel Schachna Zangen was a son of Mendel Zangen and Reizel Araten. His mother was widowed at a young age when his father died at the age of 36 in 1904. After the birth of his eldest sister in Warschau, the Zangen family moved to Rozwadow in the district of Subkarpaten in the South-East of Poland. Before the war. Rozwadow was a thriving stettl. There Samuel Schachna was born on 16 July 1897 as th…