The Rhineland massacres: Members of the People's Crusade led by Count Emicho destroy most of the Jewish communities along the Rhine in a series of large…

When

May 1096

Kind

Event

Coordinates

46.63° N, 8.67° E

Placed at the area around the river it links, Rhine.

The Rhineland massacres: Members of the People's Crusade led by Count Emicho destroy most of the Jewish communities along the Rhine in a series of large pogroms in France and Germany. Thousands of Jews are massacred, driven to suicide, or forced to convert to Christianity. Estimates of the number of Jewish men, women and children murdered are 2,000 to 12,000.

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• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Unter Gottschalk, Volkmar und Emicho, deren Züge rund 10.000 Menschen umfassen, kommt es zu eskalierenden Judenverfolgungen in Deutschland”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “premiers massacres de Juifs par les croisés”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Германский крестовый поход (еврейские погромы во Франции и Германии)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Masacre de Rhineland contra los judíos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page