Dr. Ioan Puscas

The Treznea Massacre

Around 200 people were gathered up and marched on a nearby cliff where they were to be machine gunned (one of them is Prof. Ioan Puscas, now a member of the Academy). The Hungarians living in the village tried to stop the massacre but they were beaten themselves, they only succeded in hiding some Romanians in their houses.
The retreating Romanian army was nearby, in the village of Poarta Salaj. The commanding officer (unfortunately nobody knows his name) heard the shots and came back. He threatened a Hungarian officer that he will order his men to attack if the massacre doesn't stop. The Hungarian officer sent his troops in the village and stoped the massacre. The 200 men on the cliff were released. In 1945, the killers were sentenced to death by the courthouse in Cluj.