Jews killed by Christians...
*Already in the 4th and 5th centuries synagogues were burned by
Christians. Number of Jews slain unknown.
*In the middle of the fourth century the first synagogue was destroyed on command of bishop Innocentius of Dertona in Northern Italy. The first synagogue known to have been burned down was near the river Euphrat, on command of the bishop of Kallinikon in the year 388.
*17. Council of Toledo 694 Jews were enslaved, their property
confiscated, and their children forcibly baptized.
*The Bishop of Limoges (France) in 1010 had the cities' Jews, who would not convert to Christianity, expelled or killed.
*First Crusade Thousands of Jews slaughtered 1096, maybe 12.000
total. Places Worms 5/18/1096, Mainz 5/27/1096 (1100 persons),
Cologne, Neuss, Altenahr, Wevelinghoven, Xanten, Moers, Dortmund, Kerpen, Trier, Metz, Regensburg, Prag and others (All locations Germany except Metz/France, Prag/Czech)
*Second Crusade 1147. Several hundred Jews were slain in Ham, Sully, Carentan, and Rameru (all locations in France).
*Third Crusade English Jewish communities sacked 1189/90.
*Fulda/Germany 1235 34 Jewish men and women slain.
*1257, 1267 Jewish communities of London, Canterbury, Northampton, Lincoln, Cambridge, and others exterminated.
*1290 in Bohemian (Poland) allegedly 10,000 Jews killed.
*1337 Starting in Deggendorf/Germany a Jew-killing craze reaches 51 towns in Bavaria, Austria, Poland.
*1348 All Jews of Basel/Switzerland and Strasbourg/France (two
thousand) burned.
*1349 In more than 350 towns in Germany all Jews murdered, mostly burned alive (in this one year more Jews were killed than Christians in 200 years of ancient Roman persecution of Christians).
*1389 In Prag 3,000 Jews were slaughtered.
*1391 Seville's Jews killed (Archbishop Martinez leading). 4,000 were slain, 25,000 sold as slaves. [DA454] Their identification was made easy by the brightly colored "badges of shame" that all jews above the age of ten had been forced to wear.
*1492 In the year Columbus set sail to conquer a New World, more than 150,000 Jews were expelled from Spain, many died on their way 6/30/1492.
*1648 Chmielnitzki massacres In Poland about 200,000 Jews were slain.
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