A dél-erdélyi református egyházkerületi rész története: (1940 - 1945)
Rumän. u. engl. Zsfassung. - Engl. Zsfassung u.d.T.: History of the Southern Transylvanian Reformed Church District (1940 - 1945)
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Zusammenfassung: | Rumän. u. engl. Zsfassung. - Engl. Zsfassung u.d.T.: History of the Southern Transylvanian Reformed Church District (1940 - 1945) |
Beschreibung: | Zsfassung in engl. Sprache u.d.T.: History of the Southern Transylvanian District Reformed Church District. Zsfassung in rumän. Sprache u.d.T.: Istoria Eparhiei Reformate din Transilvania de Sud |
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ELŐSZÓ
11
A DÉL-ERDÉLYI REFORMÁTUS EGYHÁZKERÜLETI RÉSZ
MŰKÖDÉSÉNEK KEZDETEI
17
A megalakulás
17
A második bécsi döntés
17
A döntés előzményei és kihirdetése
17
A döntés demográfiai következményei
21
A kettészakadt egyházkerület
23
Az Erdélyi Református Egyházkerület 1940-ben
23
A bécsi döntés következményei az Egyházkerület életében
23
Аг
Intézőbizottság kinevezése
26
A kezdeti időszak
(1940.
szeptember—október)
31
Az indulás
31
Az első megbeszélések
31
Ideiglenes szervezeti szabályzat
32
Számbavétel
34
Nehézségek
34
Egyházmegyék
35
A lelkészek távozása Magyarországra
37
Lélekszám-csökkenés
39
Az új egyházi struktúra állami elismerése
42
Kapcsolatfelvétel a kormánnyal
42
Az első minisztériumi tárgyalások
44
A DÉL-ERDÉLYI REFORMÁTUS EGYHÁZKERÜLETI RÉSZ ÉLETE
47
Az egyházkormányzás
47
Az egyházkerületi rész szervezete
47
Egyházkerület vagy egyházkerületi rész?
47
Próbálkozás a közgyűlés összehívására
53
A Nagyenyedi Református Egyházmegye lelkészértekezletének javaslata
56
A szervezeti szabályzat körüli viták
62
A kialakult egyházszervezet
66
Az Intézőbizottság
67
Az első nyilvános gyűlések
67
A titkos gyűlések
70
Nyilvános gyűlések
1945 ben
75
A Püspöki Szék
76
Püspöki Szék és/vagy Intézőbizottság?
76
Nyüvános gyűlések
77
Titkos gyűlések
78
Az elnökség
84
Az elnökség hatásköre
84
Az elnökség munkamódszere
85
Az elnökség és a magyar kormány
86
Αχ
elnökség és a román kormány
91
Pénzbeli segélyezés
93
Püspöki vizitációk
95
Az egyházi elnök, Nagy Ferenc
96
A világi elnök, Bethlen Bálint
101
Az Intézőbizottság központi irodája
103
A központi iroda megszervezése
103
Az ügyosztályok
104
Kiegészítő tisztségek
109
Bizottságok
110
Az Intézőbizottság munkájával szembeni kritika, konfliktusok
112
A Tőkés Ernő-ügy
112
Az Intézőbizottság és a Nagyenyedi Református Egyházmegye
117
Szőcs Sándor és az Intézőbizottság
119
Az Intézőbizottság és a Bethlen Kollégium Elöljárósága
121
Nagy Ferenc és Musnai László
127
Az egyház viszonya a román kormánnyal és az állami hatóságokkal
130
Az egyház lojális magatartása
130
Törvényszegés és államellenes szervezkedés hiánya
131
Hatósági rendelkezések betartása
, 131
A kormány viszonyulása
135
Időhúzás
135
Ellentmondó intézkedések
137
Rosszhiszeműség
138
Magyarellenes kormányhivatalnokok
140
Az egyház és a hatóságok viszonyának értékelése
143
A többi magyar egyházzal való viszony
146
Az Intézőbizottság és a kolozsvári Igazgatótanács viszonya
146
Támogatások
147
Sérelmek
149
A Királyhágómelléki Református Egyházkerület töredékével való viszony
150
Tárgyalások az egyesülésről
151
Szembenállás
154
A Gyulafehérvári Római Katolikus Egyházmegyével való viszony
156
Együttműködés
157
Viták
161
Az evangélikus egyházzal való viszony
164
Az unitárius egyházzal való viszony
165
A dél-erdélyi református egyházmegyék élete
166
A Brassói Református Egyházmegye
167
A Gyulafehérvári Református Egyházmegye
171
A Hunyadi Református Egyházmegye
172
A Kalotaszegi Református Egyházmegye
175
A Kolozsvári Református Egyházmegye
177
A Küküllői Református Egyházmegye
179
A Mezőségi Református Egyházmegye
180
A Nagyenyedi Református Egyházmegye
184
A Nagyszebeni Református Egyházmegye
186
Az Oromániai Református Egyházmegye
188
Az egyház belső élete
193
istentiszteletek
194
Látogatottság
194
Igehirdetések
196
Akadályok
196
Katekézis
198
Felekezeti ükolákban
198
Áüami
iskolákban
199
A gyülekezetekben (konfirmációi előkészítés)
200
Belmisszió
201
Az ideiglenes missziói tanács javasba
201
Megbénult belmissziói alakulatok
202
A Nőszövetség
203
Gyermekmunka
205
Börtönmisszió
206
Egyházi szeretetszolgálat
208
A rászorulók segélyezése
208
A Szászvárosi Arvaház helyzete
211
A brassói Szeretetház
214
Más szeretetintézrnények
215
Szórványgondozás
216
Szórvány-munkaterv
216
Szórvány-segély
217
Szórvány-káté
218
Egyházi sajtó
219
javaslatok, Sajtóbizottság
220
Lapkiadás
221
Gyerekkönyvek
224
A Bethlen Nyomda
224
Könyvkiadás
226
A Református Naptár
227
Tankönyvkiadás
229
Hitvalíásos kiadványok
230
Nyugdíj- és segélyügyek
232
Javasfot a közös nyugdíjpénztárról
232
Аг
önálló nyugdíjpénztár
233
Alkalmi segélyezés
237
SegeV^r
238
A segélyezés más formái
239
A dél-erdélyi református elemi iskolák
240
Felekezeti elemi oktatás Romániában a két világháború között
240
A dél-erdélyi református elemi oktatás a bécsi döntés utáni hónapokban
243
Általános helyzetkép
243
Eltávozott tanítók
244
Beiratkozások körüli zavarok
247
Az iskolák finanszírozása
248
A dél-erdélyi református elemi oktatás
1941-45
között
251
A tanítóhiány
151
A tanulók
256
Hatósági túlkapások
259
Finanszírozás
264
A dél-erdélyi református középiskolák
265
Református középiskolák Nagy-Romániában
265
A dél-erdélyi református középiskolák a bécsi döntés után
268
Általános helyzetkép
268
A tanulói létszám csökkenése
269
Eltávozott tanárok
269
Finanszírozás, nehézségek
270
A dél-erdélyi református középiskolák 1941H-5. között
271
Tanárok
272
Tanulók
275
Αχ
iskolapolitikai háború és következményei
277
Finanszírozás
279
A DÉL-ERDÉLYI REFORMÁTUSOKAT ÉRT SÉRELMEK
1940
ÉS
1945
KÖZÖTT
281
Általános helyzetkép
281
A romániai magyarellenesség mozgatórugói a negyvenes évek első felében
281
A magyarság kollektív bűnössége, bosszú az észak-erdélyi román sérelmekért
282
A homogén nemzeti áüam, mint célkitűzés
282
A kölcsönösségi alapú nemzetiségi politika
285
8
A primitív nacionalizmus és a pragmatikus szempontok
289
A dél-erdélyi magyarságot ért atrocitások formái
292
Első időszak:
1940.
szeptember
- 1941 ■
január
292
Második időszak:
194
І
·
január
-
1
944·
augusztus
293
Harmadik időszak: 1
944.
augusztus
- 1945.
április
296
Egyéni sérelmek
301
A magyarellenes hangulat
301
Hangulatkeltés a sajtóban és politikai beszédekben
301
Az észak-erdélyi román menekültek
305
Elbocsátások, kiutasítások
307
Inzultusok, atrocitások, merényletek
312
Református lelkészek, tanítók, egyháztagok ellen
312
Református templomok, iskolák, egyházi épületek ellen
321
Lelkészek, egyházi vezetők elleni hatósági zaklatások
326
A csendőrség és a titkosrendőrök túlkapásai
326
Állandó megfigyelés
327
Indokolatlan motozások
328
Házkutatások
330
Más, enyhébb zaklatások
334
Hadbírósági eljárások
336
Számadatok
338
Vádlottak
339
A? eljárások miatti károk
340
A leggyakoribb vád: a román nemzet gyalázása
341
Illegális gyülekezés
347
Hamisítás
349
Illegális határátlépés
350
Más esetek
351
Közösségi sérelmek
353
Az ostromállapot-törvények
353
A gyülekezési tilalom és annak következményei
357
A gyülekezési tilalom
358
Egyházi testületek megbénítása
360
Lelkészt és gyülekezeti közösségek megbénítása
362
istentiszteletek megbénítása
365
Egyházi adminisztráció megbénítása
369
Egyéni lelkigondozói munka megbénítása
370
Utazási korlátozások
371
A magyar nyelv használatának korlátozása
374
Magyar feliratok, magyar nyelv a levelezésben és telefonbeszélgetésekben
3 74
A magyar helységnevek
haszпáL·ta 376
A cenzúra
378
A cenzúráztatás rendszere
378
A cenzorok ellenséges magatartása
380
Cenzúra és egyházi sajtó
382
Gazdasági sérelmek
384
Egyházi ingatlanok lefoglalása
384
Katonák és menekültek beszállásolása
384
Egyházi ingatlanok elrekvirálása
385
Működő oktatási intézmények épületeinek lefoglalása
391
Megkülönböztetett adóterhek (Illeték-egyenértékadó)
394
Hadikölcsönjegyzés
398
Az állami támogatások megvonása
402
Közigazgatási segély
403
Iskolai segély
404
Egyházi alkalmazottak vasúti utazási kedvezménye
405
Egyházi iskolák községi költségvetési támogatása
406
Református lelkészek állami járandóságai körüli törvénytelenségek
407
Oklevelek érvényessége
408
Esperesi közigazgatási segély
408
Családi pótlék megvonása
409
Lelkészt fizetések felfüggesztése
410
Sérelmek
1944·
augusztus
23.
után
414
A hatóságok részéről elszenvedett sérelmek
415
Utazási korlátozások
416
Internálások
418
Kényszermunkatáborok
435
Hadbírósági eljárások
436
A magyar nyelv használatának korlátozása
438
Az egyházi épületeknek katonai célokra történő rekvirálása
438
A Dél-Erdélyen átvonuló katonai alakulatok és a civil lakosság okozta sérelmek
441
Fosztogatás az arcvonalon kívül eső településeken
442
Az arcvonal útjába eső egyházközségek sérelmei
446
AZ ERDÉLYI REFORMÁTUS EGYHÁZKERÜLET ÚJRAEGYESÜLÉSE
451
ÖSSZEFOGLALÁS, KÖVETKEZTETÉSEK
461
FELHASZNÁLT IRODALOM
467
Levéltári források
467
Nyomtatott levéltári források
468
Emlékiratok, visszaemlékezések
468
Összefoglaló művek, tanulmányok
468
NÉV-ÉS HELYNÉVMUTATÓ
471
SUMMARY
486
REZUMAT
493
10
History of the Southern Transylvanian
Reformed Church District
(1940-1945)
Keywords
Church History, History of the Reformed Church of Transylvania, History of Roma¬
nia during WW2, Southern Transylvania, Hungarian Minority, Antonescu-regime,
Romanian-Hungarian Relationship, Governing Committee,
Ferenc Nagy, Bálint
Bethlen, János Vásárhelyi,
Reformed Church in
Southern
Transylvania, 23rd of Au¬
gust
1944,
Romanian-Hungarian War, Atrocities and Injuries Committed Against
the Church.
Summary
In our dissertation we have presented the history of the Southern Transylvanian
Church District between
1940
and
45,
a period in which
2/5
of the body of the Re¬
formed Church had lived a provisory separate life, torn from its centre. We have
presented the newly created church structure, which came to existence in a particu¬
lar historical situation during World War II, on the southern part of the divided
Transylvania. Based on the available information, we have presented the circum¬
stances of its formation, organizations and the hardness of the first months. We
have presented the newly formed governing structures; we have outlined the re¬
sults of the government of the church authorities, the hardness and lags of their ac¬
tivity. We have run through the relationship of the church district with the Roma¬
nian government and with the other Hungarian churches, through the
liře
of the
dioceses left completely or partially in Romania, and through the different seg¬
ments of the internal church life. We have outlined the social, political relation¬
ships, which formed the background of the injuries suffered by the church and of
the anti-Hungarian and anti-Reformed approach of the Romanian government and
public opinion. We presented thoroughly the several types of injuries suffered by
the church from individual, community or economical aspects, and the torments
and looting suffered after the 23rd of August
1944.
Finally we have presented the
events of the reunification of the Transylvanian Reformed Church, and the reorgan¬
ization of a unified government.
From the large amount of presented data regarding the unique chapter of the his¬
tory of the Transylvanian Reformed Church, we can conclude the following:
486
1.
The Second Vienna Award tore not only Tranyslvania in two, but it also divided
the Transylvanian Reformed Church District. By the measures taken by Bishop
János
Vásárhelyi
and the meeting of the Governing Board on the 31st of August
1940,
the
church could avoid the final rupture of the Southern Transylvanian part from the
body of the Transylvanian Reformed Church. The decision of the meeting, claiming
that it declares the congregations, schools and institutions left in Southern Transyl¬
vania belonging to the body of the Transylvanian Reformed Church , had a key im¬
portance, because through this decision the provisory character of the division was
preserved throughout the whole time of partition. In the first two months, the newly
created Governing Committee did not try to organize a separate church district, hop¬
ing that based on the principle of mutuality, the Romanian Government will allow
Bishop
Vásárhelyi
to exercise his Episcopal authority over his followers in Southern
Transylvania. When it became clear that this is impossible
-
after the discussions of
November
1940
from
Kolozsvár
(Cluj)
-
the presidents decided to convoke the gener¬
al assembly of the church in order to elect a new bishop and a new governing board.
We presume that their main task was to preserve the continuity of existence of the
Reformed Church of Transylvania, acknowledged by the Romanian confessional law
in
1928,
and to get a better dealing position with the Romanian government as a sepa¬
rate church district, and finally to pacify those who were discontented because of the
naming of the presidents and the lack of elections. However, the convocation of the
general assembly and the election of the bishop would have meant the acceptance of
the final partition of the Southern and Northern Transylvanian Church District. But
this did not happen due to the approach of the Romanian government, which consid¬
ered the decision of the Governing Board from the 31st of August
1944
unchangeable,
and accepted the authorities created by this decision only. This way the Governing
Committee had become the substitute of the Governing Board in Southern Transyl¬
vania, and it always had to report to this governing authority. This way the unity of
the Transylvanian Reformed Church did not cease, and this is best proved by the fact
that there was no hardness in
1945
in reestablishing the unified government in the
whole church, and it did not involve any relevant change in the government system
or structure of the church.
2.
Despite the fact that the unity of the Transylvanian Reformed Church did not
cease, the two divided parts practically started separate, different, parallel ways of
life. The Northern Transylvanian part became again part of the Hungarian Reformed
Church, new church laws were introduced, and on several areas the way of ecclesias¬
tical government changed substantially, in Southern Transylvania however the
1904
Church Law remained the only valid law source. Bishop
János Vásárhelyi
was not
in Nagyenyed (Aiud) between the Autumn of
1940
and the Spring of
1945,
starting
with
1941
the Governing Board of the Transylvanian Reformed Church did not deal
with the problem of the Southern Transylvanian Church District, and the Governing
Committee in the south introduced new regulations during the time of the partition.
487
After
the liquidation of the common pension fund the problem of the Reformed pas¬
tors pension was resolved separately, the financing of the Church District also being
resolved from separate funds. The schools held by the Reformed Church worked
in the south according to the Romanian Education Law, and since the Theological
Institute remained in
Kolozsvár
(Cluj),
in the south a new Theological Academy was
established. The Church District established a printing press, published his own of¬
ficial paper, new manuals for primary education, and his own hymn book and a new
translation of the Heidelberg Catechism.
3.
Looking over the five year long history of the Southern Transylvanian Reformed
Church District, we can affirm with certainty that on the day following the Vienna
Award
János Vásárhelyi
and the Governing Board chose such persons to lead the
newly created church district that were perfectly fit to fulfill the tasks they had been
given.
Ferenc Nagy,
pastor of
Tövis
(Teiuş),
dean of the Diocese of
Gyulafehérvár
(Alba Iulia), has led the church district for five years with consciousness, patience
and prevision, and preserved it in the period which brought probably the most tor¬
ments in the history of the Transylvanian Reformed Church, even though he did
not look for his mandate, and wanted to decline it. His attachment, endeavor and
responsibility for the cause of the church is obvious both from his declarations, and
from the opinions of his contemporaries or his governing methods. During his ne¬
gotiations in Hungary or in Bucharest he perseveringly represented the interest of
the church district, and providently handled its spiritual and material concerns. The
most eloquent proof of his prevision is the fact, that in August
1944,
jeopardizing his
own image, he decided to bury the money deposits of the church district
(cca.
30
mil¬
lion lei), saving them from the looting of the Soviet soldiers quartered in the offices
of the Government Committee, who had broken its safe. The churchwarden
Bálint
Bethlen,
an aristocrat with Spartan habit, who avoided boasting and display, became
an excellent working partner for
Ferenc Nagy.
The cooperation of the two leaders
was undisturbed; we have no information of any dispute or conflict between them.
4.
In its activity, the governing authorities and the central office of the church
faced critic from the beginning, and had to deal with serious animosity. Most of these
emerged from the frustration of persons, who considered themselves neglected, and
the resulted debates and conflicts often turned into personal remarks or ill-advised
affirmations. Such conflict was outlining from the relationship of the Governing
Committee with
Ernő Tőkés
or with the Conference of Pastors in the Diocese of
Nagyenyed (Aiud). The conflict that broke out between the Governing Committee
and the Borough Council of the Reformed College in Nagyenyed emerged from the
opposite standpoints of the warden of the College,
Pál Szász,
and the churchward¬
en,
Bálint Bethlen,
and from the differences in principles and ideology regarding
financial problems between the Presidential Board, the College of Deans and the
Borough Council. During the debate however old injuries or disputes of decades
between teachers and pastors had come to surface. The boards standing on opposite
488
sides could not find the possibility of cooperation, and their bad relationship was
preserved until the liquidation of the Church District since the members of the Bor¬
ough Council decided to boycott the last meeting of the Governing Committee. The
animosity between
Perene
Nagy
and
László
Musnai and
Sándor Szőcs,
shaded their
activity, which on the other hand was efficient. The lack of proper tone and commu¬
nication made their reconciliation impossible even after
1945.
5.
The zeal, consciousness and perseverance of the Governing Committee of the
Southern Transylvanian Church District and of the pastors and teachers helped to
avoid the liquidation of several congregations and institutions of the Church. In the
first months Bishop
János Vásárhelyi
and Vicebishop
Ferenc Nagy
were those who
stopped the mass of pastors and teachers in fleeing to Hungary, even though some of
them still left the country (pastors in a smaller, but teachers in a larger number). And
even though fleeing from the church district was constant, its foreseen liquidation
did not occur. Moreover the church achieved considerable results in the field of edu¬
cation, internal mission, Diaspora care, assistance of distressed persons, book pub¬
lishing etc. The lags in their results are not the consequence of some kind of wrong
spirituality, or the lack of zeal, they emerged instead from the countless individual
and community injuries the church had to suffer and from the complete narrowing
of the possibilities of the church. This fact is proved by the conclusions of Bishop
János Vásárhelyi
formulated on one of the last meetings, and those of the Governing
Board formulated on the 25th of October
1945,
statingthat given the circumstances
the Governing Committee tried his best to fulfill the duties given by the Governing
Board in the Autumn of
1945.
6.
The Church District has found loyal allies in the other Hungarian churches for
his fight for survival. The relationship between the Hungarian churches is best char¬
acterized in this period by common standout for the common cause and by coop¬
eration. Their good relationship was clouded only by local quarrels, but these did
not interfere with the achievement of common goals. The plan to unify the Church
District with the fraction of the Western Transylvanian Church District failed, and
this failure was followed by a cold relationship between the two fragments, mostly
because dean
Elemér
Nemes
made a grievance of the way the Hungarian financial
aid was distributed in Southern Transylvania.
7.
After the Second Vienna Award the burden of preserving the Reformed elemen¬
tary and secondary education fell over the Southern Transylvanian Church District.
The educational network, which was hard to preserve even for the unified Transyl¬
vanian Reformed Church, despite any effort of the Church District started to atrophy
and decay. Organizing the elementary education was severely hardened by the fact
that a lot of teachers had fled from the country and by the discriminative measures of
the authorities against Reformed schools. Therefore only one third of the Reformed
children of school age attended Reformed schools, and their number was constantly
decreasing. The number of schools was also decreasing: in
1940
there were
104
el-
489
ementary schools, but in
1945
there were only
75.
The efforts of the Governing Com¬
mittee were in vane: they could not raise the number of well prepared educators, they
could not substitute those who had left.
The secondary schools were also expecting a slow but sure decay. Even though at
the end of the first school year there were signs of optimism regarding the flourish¬
ing of the secondary educational system, starting with the second year, the number
of leaving teachers was constantly growing, and there was no chance to substitute
them. Even though the number of students was constantly growing, the aggressive
approach of the Romanian government, which peaked in
1943
with the closing of
the secondary schools on Nagyenyed (Aiud) and
Brassó
(Braşov),
narrowed every
life chance of the secondary education. This way in the summer of
1944
in Southern
Transylvania neither the church leaders, nor the political leaders of the Hungarians
considered the educational problem a key matter, because their
15
year long perspec¬
tives were only the total liquidation of these schools.
We have to emphasize the fact that preserving the school system would have
been almost impossible without the efficient help of the Hungarian government. The
church directed
71%
of the financial aid of the Hungarian government to preserve the
school system. We think that this measure stopped the quick decay of the schools, but
it was not enough to cease their slow disappearance. Looking over the five years his¬
tory of the elementary and secondary education, we can affirm that its decay was not
caused by the lack of proper financial support. The fleeing of teachers and educators
was the result of spiritual and not material reasons, and it is obvious that the human
resource problems could not be balanced with the raising of financial support.
8.
The approach of the Romanian government and public opinion toward the
Hungarians was characterized in the researched period by serious hatred and re-
vengefulness and the determination for ethnical cleansing. In the background of this
approach were the following: the desire to avenge the injuries that the Romanians
had suffered in Northern Transylvania; the determination to create the ethnically
uniform Romanian national state; the politics based on reciprocity, which were con¬
cretized in mutual avenge from both sides; the primitive nationalism and finally
pragmatic and economic considerations. In the researched period there was no place
either for pluralism or for the elementary rules of democracy in Romania. The Hun¬
garian could feel themselves as secondhand citizens, or
vogelfrei
as the Jews. Their
situation was improved after the break with the Nazi ideology, moreover, during the
Hungarian-Romanian war they were treated as dangerous elements, public enemies
in Romania. The Antonescu-regime was nothing more than a totalitarian dictator¬
ship, which extended to the infinite the nationalist state politics of the 30s, and the
following governments, even though they denied ethnic discrimination, practiced
hidden offensive politics toward the Hungarians.
They did not consider the Reformed Church as a spiritual reality, but more as
a Hungarian public institution, so the discriminative and biased measures taken
490
against Hungarians hit the church as well. The authorities have considered it the
representative of the Hungarians, so as they have narrowed the life possibilities of
the Hungarians, they have narrowed it for the Church also.
9.
The history of the Southern Transylvanian Reformed Church District is a history
of suffered injuries. Even though the main target for the newly created Governing
Committee was to find a modus
vivendi,
as we look over the wide scale of the suf¬
fered injuries, or over their considerable number, we can affirm that the five years
of separation brought the church no chance for living, only suffering.
Ferenc Nagy
characterized the life of the church in
1943
by saying that the Reformed people here
live with the tormenting feeling that there is a death sentence declared over them, but
it has not been executed yet .
Taking into account the large number of illegalities, or crying injustice, atrocities
of
xénophobe
acts emerging from declared hatred, committed with the appearance of
justice, among any type of background search is obvious: the contemporary Romanian
community and the government considered that they have to create with any price the
ethnically homogenous Romania, which is free from Hungarians or other minorities.
Beyond mutuality, revenge or pragmatism both during the Antonescu regime and
during the following governments there is a definite outline of a well thought policy
to bereave the Hungarians of their basic human rights, forcing them to voluntarily
give up their positions and find a new home in their kin state. Even though this policy
had succeeded, there was no complete success, because the majority of the Hungar¬
ians stood still on their positions. Anyway, this policy had brought unprecedented
sufferings for the Hungarians and implicitly for the Reformed Church. The violent
actions, the countless harassments from the authorities (confiscations, court martial
proceedings based on false accusations), the constant abuses, the requiring and the
war loans, the illegal limitation of salaries of pastors, which meant their daily bread,
and finally the internments lasting for months and the complete lack of legal defense
against injuries had stressed considerably the leaders of the church, the pastors and
the followers, causing for some mental illness, and for others even their death. The
injuries regarding the use of languages, the limitations of traveling and gathering,
the censorship, the decay of newspaper and book publishing, the austerity of the
authorities that paralyzed in every aspect the ecclesiastical and educational life, the
over calculated taxes, war loans and the bereaving of the communities of their legal
financial support made whole church communities incapable of living, and turned
the life of the church into a constant struggle for survival.
10.
The constant attacks aiming at the welfare, assets and communities of the
church contributed to the violent assimilation of the Hungarians in Southern Tran¬
sylvania, and therefore to the dispersion of the Reformed Church. The representation
of the Southern Transylvanian Hungarians and Reformed people, their demographic
and spiritual potential was seriously decreasing in this period, and the effects of this
decrease can be seen even today.
491
11.
Finally it is necessary to emphasize the heroism of those people who made
their sacrifices for the survival of the church. We think that by presenting the life of
the church and the suffered injuries the importance of their resistance becomes obvi¬
ous, and it can be proved that there were people who held their positions in knowl¬
edge of their vocation and mission, neglecting their own financial advancement and
jeopardizing their own and their families existence and safety. There were only a
few servants of God who fled from their duty, and most of them did this when they
could not stand anymore the everyday torments.
And finally we have to agree with
Béni L.
Balogh,
who weighing the importance
of the minority life between
1940
and
1945,
mentions as the only positive fact that
the Hungarians in Southern Transylvania survived this period full of torments, even
though they brought enormous sacrifices. We think that his statement is valid for the
Reformed Church also.
492
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spellingShingle | Nagy, Alpár-Csaba A dél-erdélyi református egyházkerületi rész története (1940 - 1945) Documentatio ethnographica Magyaren (DE-588)4100008-0 gnd Reformierte Kirche (DE-588)4048954-1 gnd Unterdrückung (DE-588)4257314-2 gnd |
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title | A dél-erdélyi református egyházkerületi rész története (1940 - 1945) |
title_alt | History of the Southern Transylvanian District Reformed Church District Istoria Eparhiei Reformate din Transilvania de Sud |
title_auth | A dél-erdélyi református egyházkerületi rész története (1940 - 1945) |
title_exact_search | A dél-erdélyi református egyházkerületi rész története (1940 - 1945) |
title_full | A dél-erdélyi református egyházkerületi rész története (1940 - 1945) Nagy Alpár-Csaba |
title_fullStr | A dél-erdélyi református egyházkerületi rész története (1940 - 1945) Nagy Alpár-Csaba |
title_full_unstemmed | A dél-erdélyi református egyházkerületi rész története (1940 - 1945) Nagy Alpár-Csaba |
title_short | A dél-erdélyi református egyházkerületi rész története |
title_sort | a del erdelyi reformatus egyhazkeruleti resz tortenete 1940 1945 |
title_sub | (1940 - 1945) |
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