Satmar (חסידות סאטמאר) is a Hasidic

Hasidic Judaism

Hasidic Judaism or Hasidism, from the Hebrew —Ḥasidut in Sephardi, Chasidus in Ashkenazi, meaning "piety" , is a branch of Orthodox Judaism that promotes spirituality and joy through the popularisation and internalisation of Jewish mysticism as the fundamental aspects of the Jewish faith...

 movement comprising mostly Hungarian and Romanian Hasidic Jewish

Jews

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 Holocaust

The Holocaust

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 survivors and their descendants. It was founded and led by the late Hungarian-born Grand Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum (1887–1979), who was the rabbi of Szatmárnémeti, Hungary

Hungary

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 (currently Satu Mare, Romania

Romania

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). The town's name in German

German language

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 is Satmar. The name Satmar was also used by the Yiddish

Yiddish language

Yiddish is a High German language of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. It developed as a fusion of German dialects with Hebrew, Aramaic, Slavic languages and traces of Romance languages...

-speaking population, Yiddish being then the common language of the local Jews.