Baltimore-i Értesítő - Amerikai Magyar Értesítő, 1980 (16. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1980-05-01 / 5. szám
1980. május hó ÉRTESÍTŐ 9. oldal THE TRANSYLVANIAN QUARTERLY RUSSIA’S EXECUTIONER IN 1956 After the brutal squelching of the short-lived free Hungarian Republic in November 1956, Rumania eagerly joined Russia in “rounding up” freedom- loving Hungarians by the thousands, and executing them. Prime minister Imre Nagy, head of the free Hungarian government of October 1956, as well as the young and heroic general Paul Maleter, leader of the Hungarian Freedom Fighters, were both executed in Rumania, by Rumanians, without trial, in order to please their Russian masters. In return for this loyal and devoted service the Soviet Union agreed to pull out its troops from Rumania, since there was no need to police this most trustworthy member of the communist block any longer. From that time on Rumania enjoys “special privileges” in Moscow, including the privilege to “sasa” its Kremlin masters for the benefit of the gullible West and serve as a spy while doing so. For the good of world-communism, of course. ************** FOUR HUNDRED YEAR OLD HUNGARIAN SCHOOL CONFISCATED The Carpathian Observer reports: “The 400th anniversary of one of the first schools in Transylvania, called today the Mathematics-Physics Lycee No. 3 in Cluj-Napoca, has been recently celebrated. Addressing the attendance at the festivity the headmistress of the lycee recalled the century-old records of the cultural establishment where numerous personalities of Transylvania’s social, cultural and scientific life had been educated.” This report in the “Tribune» Romaniei”, a bi-weekly paper published in Bucharest for Rumanian-Americans fails to mention that the school was established in 1579 by the Hungarian Stephen Báthory, Governor of Transylvania and later King of Poland. In 1948 the Rumanians nationalised and gradually Rumanized this originally Hungarian Catholic Highschool. Plans for the anniversary celebrations included invitation of former students, most of them Hungarian, now living abroad, but this was not permitted by Rumanian authorities. So this truly Hungarian cultural event in the historic Hungarian cultural capital of Transylvania, Kolqzsvár (Cluj) was turned into a Rumanian one, just as many other Hungarian historic events and achievements in the past 30 years.” We must add to this that the two other ancient Hungarian educational centers of Kolozsvár, the Calvinist “Reformed Collegium”, and “Unitarian Collegium” were nationalized and Rumanized the same way, with no credit given to the two Hungarian churches for past achievements. THE SARMAS MASSACRE TWF, Geneva, Switzerland — A refugee from Sarmas, Transylvania, residing now in Switzerland, whose name cannot be made public for well-known reasons, testified in front of a Geneva judge concerning the “Sarmas Massacre” of October 1944. Here is part of his testimony: “I was fourteen years of age when my entire family was killed. We lived in a town named Sarmas, in Transylvania. My father was a tinsmith. We were Hungarians. Sarmas was a Hungarian town.. “The Rumanians came back on a Sunday. It was in mid-October. I don’t know the date, but it was Sunday. My mother wanted us to go to church, but father said no, we better stay home. There may be some trouble, he said. We heard shots from the direction of Bald. Many shots. We saw some German trucks coming down the highway, rushing through the town and disappearing Northbound. I remember my father saying that the war was over... “Then we saw the Rumanian soldiers coming at us from everywhere. Along the highway, across the meadows, across the cornfields, and even from the hilltop they came, across the pastures. They were firing shots everywhere. I couldn’t see any enemy in front of them, but they were still firing . . . “They chased the Hungarians out of their houses, and herded them down toward the market-place, like sheep. We hid in the house, and locked the door, but they broke it down. Mother begged them to leave us alone but they kicked her in the belly. My father got mad and reached for the axe. One of the soldiers shot him, and he fell. Then we were chased out of the house, my mother, my grandmother and my five brothers and sisters. My youngest sister was only three, and she was holding on to mother’s skirt, screaming. Mother was screaming, too, and everybody else... “I fell into a ditch. The ditch was full of weeds and nobody could see me. I was just lying there in the weeds. I was trembling... “Then I heard the shots, down at the marketplace. Many shots. Screams and more shots. And then everything was quiet. I have never seen my family again. The soldiers ordered the rest of the Hungarians to dig a huge big hole in the Szász cornfield and bury there all the dead. There were 134 buried there, that day.. ☆ ☆ Wass: Documented Facts and Figures on Transylvania. Soft cover. $3.75 including postage.
