<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The presentation summarizes the results of two years of oral history research. The aim of the research was to record the recollections of the still living eyewitnesses of the events in the fall of 1944 in Cluj and its surroundings, in settlements that belonged to the southern part of Transylvania during World War II. Several hours of interviews were made in the villages of the regions of Ţara Călatei (Kalotaszeg) and the Transylvanian Plain (Mezőség), and the lecture presents a synthesis of these interviews. They address issues like deportation, atrocities, fleeing, arm usage, Soviet and Romanian detention camps, adventurous escapes, etc. </p></abstract>

The presentation summarizes the results of two years of oral history research. The aim of the research was to record the recollections of the still living eyewitnesses of the events in the fall of 1944 in Cluj and its surroundings, in settlements that belonged to the southern part of Transylvania during World War II. Several hours of interviews were made in the villages of the regions of Ţara Călatei (Kalotaszeg) and the Transylvanian Plain (Mezőség), and the lecture presents a synthesis of these interviews. They address issues like deportation, atrocities, fleeing, arm usage, Soviet and Romanian detention camps, adventurous escapes, etc.

National Traumas – Local Memories Villages Southeast and Southwest from Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca) during WW2 – General Research Overview

Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca Faculty of Reformed Theology

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, European and Regional Studies

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The presentation summarizes the results of two years of oral history research. The aim of the research was to record the recollections of the still living...

National Traumas – Local Memories Villages Southeast and Southwest from Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca) during WW2 – General Research Overview

Pubblicato online: 08 set 2015

Pagine: 31 - 39

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/auseur-2015-0003

Parole chiave
Transylvania, Romanians, Hungarians, ethnicity, WW2, traumas, injuries, requisition, interning, forced-labour camps

© 2015

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

National Traumas – Local Memories Villages Southeast and Southwest from Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca) during WW2 – General Research Overview

Pubblicato online: 08 set 2015

Pagine: 31 - 39

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/auseur-2015-0003

Parole chiaveTransylvania, Romanians, Hungarians, ethnicity, WW2, traumas, injuries, requisition, interning, forced-labour camps

© 2015

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Parole chiave
Transylvania, Romanians, Hungarians, ethnicity, WW2, traumas, injuries, requisition, interning, forced-labour camps