Samuel Schachna Zangen

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…

Samuel Zangen, his wife Chawa and their only son Mendel (also called Jules), aged 14, left Antwerp in August 1942 in order to reach a safe haven in Switzerland. They were arrested on August 21 by German border guards while attempting to cross the border from occupied France to Switzerland, a little south of Morteau (Dept Doubs), between French Montlebon and Swiss Le Gardot. They were put into jail…