16. Between 1918 and 1924, 350,000 people sought refuge in Hungary. In 1940, after the Second Vienna Award, 190,000 migrated to Hungary from Southern Transylvania, and 220,000 Romanians moved from Northern Transylvania to Romania. In 1944, approximately 350,000 Jews fell victim to the Holocaust on the territories regained by Hungary after 1938. During the Second World War Hungary’ losses were: between 100,000 and 180,000 military, and approximately 45,000 civilians. In 1944, approximately 40,000 people were sent to labour camps, more than half of them did not return. In 1944, the partisan retaliations in Vojvodina led to approximately 20,000–40,000 Hungarian victims. Between 1944 and 1946, approximately 100,000 Transylvanians remained in Hungary. Between 1946 and 1948, the population exchange between Hungary and Czechoslovakia involved the resettlement of 130,000 Hungarians to Hungary and 72,000 Slovaks to Czechoslovakia; approximately 50,000 Hungarians from Southern Slovakia were deported to the Czechlands, and 327,000 Hungarians were ‘re-Slovakised’. Between 1946 and 1948, 185,000 Germans from Hungary were deported from Hungary and approximately 60,000 were taken to labour camps to the Soviet Union. In 1956, 200,000 people left Hungary. Between 1986 and 1992, approximately 60,000 Hungarians resettled from Romania to Hungary. Between 1991 and 1995, during the war, approximately 50,000 Hungarians from Croatia and Vojvodina sought refuge in Hungary.
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