Satu Mare, Romania

Remember Satmar;
The Memorial Book of the Jews of Satmar
(Satu Mare, Romania)

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Translation of
Zekhor et Satmar; sefer ha-zikaron shel yehudei Satmar

Editor: Naftali Stern

Published in Bnai Brak 1984

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This is a translation of: Zekhor et Satmar; sefer ha-zikaron shel yehudei Satmar
(Remember Satmar; the memorial book of the Jews of Satmar),
Editor: Naftali Stern, Published: Bnai Brak 1984 (H, Hu 400 pages)

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Satu Mare

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

Yizkor - Kadish - Memorial Prayer		6-7
Foreword	The Editor	9-18
Yizkor to Nandor Singer	Marcel Berger and Ari Katz	19
Why we are 40 years late in publishing this Memorial Book		20-21
History of the Satmar Community, from founding to Holocaust		22-32
The Satmar Rabbis z”l		33-41
Rabbi Yoel Teitelboim meets Carol II King of Romania		42
Chaia Roize Teitelboim violated the Holiday		42
The ADMORs of Wizhnitz		43
The rabbi of Bikszad z”l		44-45
The great scholar Rabbi Moshe David Winternitz z”l, head of the Religious Court		45-46
The great scholar Rabbi Avraham Chanoch Friedman z”l, judge and teacher		46-47
Tif'eret Bahurim Society		47
Cantors in Satmar		48
The town Satu Mare and its Jews	Prof. Chaim Shamir	50-53
Auschwitz	Moshe Neufeld	53-55
My visit to the Dachau Camp		56
“And of Zion it shall be said” (Psalms 86:5)	Yitzhak Yehuda Klemer	57
I remember Satmar	Yehuda Fried	57-58
They committed suicide in the Satmar Ghetto		59-62
List of synagogues and Batei-Midrash in Satmar		63
Police raid of the synagogues on the last day of Passover		64-65
Returned from the dead		66
Uncle Kapli is two weeks old		67
My war with God, blessed be He		68-69
A good memory about a good doctor (the death of Dr. Julius Lass z”l)		70
74 degrees heat		71-72
The Golden Album of Satmar Jews, veterans of the Hungarian Army in WWI		72
Family memories (in three series)		73-144
Necrology extracted from “Family memories”		73-144
Purim in Satmar		145
Zionism		145-149
Jewish life in Satmar after the Holocaust		149
Correcting an error		151
I have not kept my vow	Moshe Neufeld	152-153
Why?	Anna Hegedüs	156-157
Uncle Stern remained hungry		157-158
The loss of photos taken at the Memorial Service in Satmar in 1946		158
Conclusion	The Editor	159
Acknowledgments and Thanks		159-160

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