Nemzeti traumák – lokális emlékezet. Az 1940–1944 közötti időszak a Mezőség Dél-Erdélyben maradt településein

Abstract

National traumas – local memories. Villages southeast and southwest from Kolozsvár during WW2 – general research overview. 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 the Transylvanian Plain (Mezőség), and the lecture presents a synthesis of these interviews. They address is- sues like deportation, atrocities, fleeing, arm usage, Soviet and Romanian detention camps, adventurous escapes, etc.