תולדות חייו של מקס, כפי שנכתבו על ידי מיכל תדמור אחייניתו

Max was the third son amongst four children born to Berta (born Kleinblatt) and Jacob Zangen. Two years prior to his birth the family migrated from the township of Tarnobjek in the region of Krakov, towards Western Europe, seeking to make a living. They passed through Antwerp and finally settled down in France, in the province of Alsace. Max was born on august the 27th in the year 1913, to a family recently arrived from Poland, being a brother to Shlomo, Shulamit and Ruben. The family was religious but was open to the spirit of enlightment prevailing in Western Europe, invested in education and Encouraged the children to be receptive to knowledge. In his youth he was a member of the youth movement "hatikva" which was active in Alsace and prepared its members for a life of Zionism. When his Zionist family immigrated to Palestine before the war, Max remained in France in order to carry out his plans for higher studies and to prepare himself for a life in Erez Israel. He moved to Paris, working there for his living and studying in the Sorbonne history and psychology.
The war broke out and his family attempted to entice him to join them and immigrate to Erez Israel but did not succeed in that. When the Germans conquered France he was captured whilst exiting from the Sorbonne, arrested and transferred to the work camp at Pithivie. In February 1941 he married Fanny (Zippora) Schwartz who succeeded in maintaining close contact with him whilst he was held in the camp, hoping to hold on in this way until the end of the war.
On the 17.7.42 Max was sent with convoy no. 6 to Auschwitz where he was murdered. His parents lived and died in Erez Israel. His brothers and sister, all of them deceased in the meantime, raised families In Israel, living here to this day.
His widow, Fanny, remarried and at the present lives in the USA. We, his nieces and nephews, who were denied the chance to know him, seek hereby to perpetuate his memory.