Person · 5672–5704 AM · 1912 CE — 1944 CE
Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Teitelbaum the second, the last rebbe of Siget רבי יקותיאל יהודה טייטלבוים השני מסיגעט
the fifth and last rebbe of Siget; he perished in Auschwitz
Son of Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum, the Atzei Chaim, and nephew of Rabbi Yoel of Satmar. He was born in 1912 in Sighet.
He took the court in 1926, at fourteen; in the first years a guide stood beside him, Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Gross. He was chief rabbi of Sighet from 1936.
He was killed on 25 Iyar 1944 in Auschwitz together with his wife and two children: they were taken with the first transport of the Sighet community. His surviving responsa came out later under the name Yad Yekutiel. The court in America was raised by his younger brother, Rabbi Moshe.
On the timeline
5537 · 1777 CEThe courts of Galicia, Bukovina and Hungary: Ruzhin, Belz, Sanz, Satmar5699 · 1939 CEThe Shoah: the Destruction of European Jewry
Places
Related
Atzei Chaim—Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum of SighetRabbi Yoel Teitelbaum of SatmarRabbi Moshe Teitelbaum of Satmar—the Berach Moshe
Sources
Documents of the period
- Testimonies on the destruction of the Sighet community — 25 Iyar 1944 and the first transport
Scholarship
- The register of the Siget house — his taking of the court at fourteen and the chief rabbinate of Sighet from 1936
Basis: documents and evidence.