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File:Jews burned to death in Strasbourg Feb. 14 1349 during the Black Death.jpg

Jews_burned_to_death_in_Strasbourg_Feb._14_1349_during_the_Black_Death.jpg (350 × 210 pixels, file size: 39 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

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English: A contemporary drawing of the 2000 Jews of Strasbourg being burned to death over a pit on Feb. 14, 1349 in the Strasbourg Massacre during the Black Death persecutions. The Jews were accused of causing the Black Death by poisoning the wells. Babies thrown out to be saved were thrown back into the fire. The monument to this massacre erected in the early 20th century was removed by the Nazis.
Date approximately 1350 CE
Source

Original publication: Medieval manuscript

Immediate source: facsimile
Author

Anonymous Medieval drawing

(Life time: circa 1375)
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 A photograph of an anonymous drawing from a Medieval manuscript (Gillis Li Muisius)
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English: The sole contemporary representation of the massacres of the Jews during the Black Death persecutions. The monument to the Strasbourg Massacre on the excavated site was removed by the Nazis and never replaced.

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