Ip massacre

Ip massacre
File:Zilah 1940. szeptember 8.jpg Hungarian troops marching in nearby Zalău, five days earlier
Location	Ipp, Kingdom of Hungary (now Ip, Romania)
Date	13/14 September 1940 23:00 (CET)
Attack type	Genocide (targeted killing of the local ethnic Romanians), ethnic cleansing
Weapons	Machine guns, rifles, revolvers, bayonets
Deaths	158 ethnic Romanians
Perpetrator	Hungarian Army, locals, Nemzetőrség members

The Ip massacre took place in the early hours of 14 September 1940, in Ip, Sălaj - a village in Northern Transylvania. The Hungarian Army was apparently supported by a local vigilante group, and together they killed 158 Romanian civilians.

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

Background

After the Vienna Award of 30 August 1940, as a result of the German-Italian political arbitration, northwestern Transylvania came under Hungarian rule. Horthyist-occupied territory during the Second World War became Northern Transylvania and it contained the northwestern part of the homonymous region and the Székely lands. A total of eight of 23 Transylvanian counties included in the interwar period were entirely alienated, and another three were split. Thus, Sălaj County is also, now, attached to Hungary. On 8 September 1940, the Second Army entered the city of Zalău. Immediately after the occupation of the Transylvanian territory, they started a series of massacres against the Romanian civilian populace. The area most affected by Horthyist terror was Sălaj, where 477 Romanians were massacred..

See also

• List of massacres in Romania
• Treznea massacre

External links

• Ip massacre (Romanian)