About Moshe Dovid Winternitz
Lived 1855 – 1944 (aged 88–89). Moshe Dovid Winternitz was a rabbi.
Moshe Dovid Winternitz (1855–1944) was the Head of the Beth din Rabbinical Court in Satmar, Hungary (now Satu Mare, Romania). This position was second to the Rabbi of the city. He is considered to be one of the greatest scholars of his time. People from around the globe would send him Halachic queries.
In the summer of 1944, he was deported with many of the other Jews of Satmar to the Auschwitz Death camp, where he perished.
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Hungarian rabbi
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Moshe Dovid Winternitz was born in 1855 in Satu Mare.
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Moshe Dovid Winternitz died in 1944 in extermination camp.
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Moshe Dovid Winternitz was a rabbi.
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