[1] Sighet Hasidism originated in the town of Máramarossziget, Hungary (Yiddish: סיגעט, now Sighetu Marmației, Romania).
The town of Sighet was in need of a rabbi to lead the Beis Din and answer the Jewish towns-people's religious questions.
Hungary was officially a German ally, but had refused to send its Jews to Germany without knowing their exact fate.
In 1944, however, Germany invaded Hungary and deported its Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp, including the inhabitants of Máramarossziget.
After the Holocaust, Moses Teitelbaum assumed control of the Sighet Hasidic group, and was faced with many painful and difficult questions in Jewish law.
He survived the Holocaust, and moved back to Sighet for a brief time, before the persecution of religious Hungarians by the Communists became too great.