Treznea massacre

Treznea massacre
Monument in memory of the victims of the Treznea massacre
LocationTreznea, Sălaj County, Romania (then Ördögkút, Hungary)
Coordinates47°06′20″N 23°06′29″E / 47.10556°N 23.10806°E / 47.10556; 23.10806
Date9 September 1940
Attack type
massacre
Weaponsmachine guns, rifles, grenades
Deaths93 ethnic Romanians and Jews
PerpetratorHungarian Army, locals
MotiveAnti-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]

  1. ^ Ablonczy, Balázs (2011). A visszatért Erdély, 1940–1944 (in Hungarian). Budapest: Jaffa Kiadó. p. 61. ISBN 978-963-9971-60-8. OCLC 741557867.
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