13th–14th centuries
Black Death Massacres
1349·Berlin
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
the destroyed community
The community of Berlin was destroyed during the Black Death.
The city was then no more than a double merchant town on the Spree. Its Jewish life reconstituted itself in the following century, was expelled from the march following an accusation of host desecration, then was reborn at the end of the seventeenth century with the families who came from Vienna: three beginnings, of which this is the first erasure.
- Period :
- 13th–14th centuries
- Type :
- Massacre
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Allemagne
Salfeld, Das Martyrologium des Nürnberger Memorbuches ; Graus, Pest, Geissler, Judenmorde.