title: Transylvanian Communities Subjected to Collective Traumas and Retorsions in 1944–1947
abstract: In the time of the Second World War, territorial dispute and the policy of “coercive reciprocity” actively induced by the governments of two neighbouring states – Hungary and Romania – had their tragic impact upon the communities of Transylvania. In that region, Hungarians, Romanians, Germans and Jews had cohabitated for centuries. Transylvania, splitted as a consequence of the Second Vienna Award between Hungary (Northern Transylvania) and Romania (Southern Transylvania), in the year 1944 was t