Treznea massacre

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Treznea massacre
Monument in memory of the victims of the Treznea massacre
Location	Treznea, Sălaj County, Romania (then Ördögkút, Hungary)
Coordinates	47°06′20″N 23°06′29″E / 47.10556°N 23.10806°E / 47.10556; 23.10806
Date	9 September 1940
Attack type	massacre
Weapons	machine guns, rifles, grenades
Deaths	93 ethnic Romanians and Jews
Perpetrator	Hungarian Army, locals
Motive	Anti-Romanian sentiment, Antisemitism, Hungarian irredentism

The Treznea massacre occurred in the village of Treznea, Sălaj in north-western Transylvania on 9 September 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Second Vienna Award, when Romania ceded Northern Transylvania to Hungary. The massacre was perpretated by Hungarian Army troops with aid from some locals; 93 ethnic Romanians and Jews were killed.^[1][2]