13th–14th centuries
Massacres of the Black Death in Silesia
1349·Schweidnitz
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 burned
The community of Schweidnitz, in Silesia, was burned during the Black Death.
The city, today Świdnica, belonged at the time to a Silesian duchy that had passed under the Bohemian crown; the Jewish quarter and its synagogue were destroyed, and the property was seized by the council.
- 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.