13th–14th centuries
Massacres of the Black Death in Silesia
1349·Liegnitz
Toll
inconnu
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 community destroyed
The community of Liegnitz was destroyed during the Black Death.
The ducal city of Silesia, today Legnica, appears in the lists of communities annihilated between the Oder and the Sudetes; its Jewish life reconstituted itself in the following century, then was expelled from the duchy.
- Period :
- 13th–14th centuries
- Type :
- Massacre
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Pologne
Sources
Bondy et Dvorský, Zur Geschichte der Juden in Böhmen, Mähren und Schlesien ; Graus, Pest, Geissler, Judenmorde.