What the records say
- When
- 29 Mar 1349
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 100
- Coordinates
- 50.98° N, 11.03° E
- Description
- German 14-century pogrom
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Erfurt massacre (1349)
1349 massacre in Erfurt, Germany
The Erfurt massacre was a massacre of the Jewish community in Erfurt, Germany, on 21–22 March 1349. Accounts of the number of Jews killed in the massacre vary widely from between 100 and up to 3000. Any Jewish survivors were expelled from the city. Some Jews set fire to their homes and possessions and perished in the flames before they could be lynched.
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- Wikidata: massacres and genocidesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Jewish persecutions during the Black Death: Erfurt massacre – The Jewish community of Erfurt (Germany) is murdered and expelled in a pogrom”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “резня в Эрфурте”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page