13th–14th centuries
Black Death massacres in Silesia
1349·Striegau
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 Striegau, in Silesia, was destroyed during the Black Death.
The small town, today Strzegom, appears in the lists of annihilated communities alongside Schweidnitz, its neighbor; the stones of the Jewish cemetery were subsequently used in the town's construction, as excavations have confirmed.
- 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.