Basel Massacre
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title:
Basel Massacre
text:
The Basel Massacre was an anti-Semitic episode 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 or 50 to 70 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 o
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wiki
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description:
Swiss 14th-century pogrom
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_Massacre
date created:
2005-09-23T23:17:47Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T14:40:37Z
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