The Ip massacre took place in the early hours of 14 September 1940, in Ip, Sălaj

Ip, Salaj

Ip or Ipp is a commune in Sălaj County, Romania. It is composed of five villages: Cosniciu de Jos, Cosniciu de Sus, Ip, Zăuan and Zăuan-Băi.The commune was the site of the 1940 Ip massacre....

, a village in Northern Transylvania

Northern Transylvania

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 when the Hungarian Army

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, apparently supported by a local vigilante

Vigilante

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 group, killed 158 Romanian

Romanians

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 civilians.

In 1990, a monument was erected in Ip to remember the victims, and the Romanian Armed Forces produced a film

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 for the Romanian Television

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Sources

Ip şi Trăznea, Atrocităţi maghiare şi acţiune diplomatică, Dr. Petre Ţurlea, ed. Enciclopedică, Bucureşti, 1996 Ardealul pământ românesc. Problema Ardealului văzută de un american, Milton G. Lehrer, ed. Vatra Românească, 1991 Urmaşii lui Atilla, Radu Theodoru, Editura Miracol, Bucureşti, 1999, ISBN 973-9315-38-0 Teroarea horthysto-fascistă în nord-vestul României (septembrie 1940 - octombrie 1944), Mihai Fătu, Mircea Muşat (coord.), Ed. Politică, Bucureşti, 1985.