.png) Burning of the Jews from Hartmann Schedel’s Liber Chronicarum (1493) | |
| Date | January 16, 1349 |
|---|---|
| Location | Basel |
| Coordinates | 47°33′17″N 7°35′26″E / 47.55472°N 7.59056°E |
| Cause | Anti-Semitism (Alleged well poisoning) |
| Casualties | |
| 300–600[1] Jews dead | |
| 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. A number of Jews, variously given as between 300 and 600 (according to contemporary Medieval chronicles) or 50 to 70 (according to some modern historians) were burned alive, after being locked in a wooden structure built on a nearby island in the Rhine. Jewish children were apparently spared, but forcibly baptized and sent to monasteries. The event occurred on January 9. [2]
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