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The Erfurt massacre was a massacre of the Jewish community in Erfurt, Germany, on 21-22 March 1349. [1] Accounts of the number of Jews killed in the massacre vary widely from between 100 and up to 3000. [2] [3] Any Jewish survivors were expelled from the city. Some Jews set fire to their homes and possessions and perished in the flames before ...
Map of anti-Jewish persecutions in Europe around the time of the Black Death. In the spring of 1349, the Jewish community in Frankfurt am Main was annihilated. That was followed by the destruction of Jewish communities in Mainz and Cologne. The 3,000-strong Jewish population of Mainz initially defended themselves and managed to hold off the ...
The Strasbourg massacre occurred on 14 February 1349, when the entire Jewish community of several thousand Jews were publicly burnt to death as part of the Black Death persecutions. [ 1 ] Starting in the spring of 1348, pogroms against Jews had occurred in European cities, starting in Toulon .
Jewish community banished The Basel Massacre was an anti-Semitic massacre in Basel , which occurred in 1349 in connection with alleged well poisoning as part of the Black Death persecutions , carried out against the Jews in Europe at the time of the Black Death .
On June 27, the authorities officially accused the Jewish community of sabotage, and assembled the soldiers and police who would spearhead the pogrom, where they were falsely told that Jews had attacked soldiers in the streets. [17] Marcel, a Jewish survivor from Iași recounted: I remember that the real danger for the Jews started on June 29 ...
The Black Death plague devastated Europe in the mid-14th century, annihilating more than a half of the population, with Jews being made scapegoats. Rumors spread that they caused the disease by deliberately poisoning wells. Hundreds of Jewish communities were destroyed by violence, in particular in the Iberian peninsula and in the Germanic Empire.
The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic that occurred in Europe from 1346 to 1353. It was one of the most fatal pandemics in human history; as many as 50 million people [2] perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population. [3] The disease is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread by fleas and through the air.
With the spread of the Black Death in the 14th century, there were pogroms against Jews triggered by rumours of well poisoning.Already at Christmas 1348, before the plague had reached Basel, the Jewish cemetery was destroyed and a number of Jews fled the city.