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The Strasbourg massacre occurred on 14 February 1349, the council was dissolved and reconstituted in the next three days, and the pogrom began a day later. Most people associate February 14 with love and romance. Yet hundreds of years ago Valentine’s Day saw a horrific mass murder when 2,000 Jews were burned alive in the French city of Strasbourg. The year was 1349 and the Bubonic Plague, known as the Black Death, was sweeping across Europe, wiping out whole communities. On February 14, 1349, the city of Strasbourg, France was the scene of a St. Valentine’s Day massacre 150 times worse than the more famous Chicago incident! Digging Deeper. Digging deeper, we find Strasbourg at the time an independent Imperial City located in the region now known as Alsace on the French-German border. Strasbourg was home to nearly 300 Jews by the 14th century. The Black Plague, believed to have been a bubonic plague, spread across Europe with devastating consequences. It killed between 20-50% of Europe’s population between 1347-1352, and incited mass movements of violence against Jews in the German Empire, Spain, France and the Low Lands 14 February 1349 St Valentine’s Day Massacre in Strasbourg sees 900 Jews burnt alive From Ha’aretz On February 14, 1349 – St. Valentine’s Day – the Jewish residents of Strasbourg, in Alsace, were burned to death by their Christian neighbours. Estimates of the number murdered range from several hundred to more than 2,000. The Strasbourg On February 14, 1349 – St. Valentine’s Day – the Jewish residents of Strasbourg, in Alsace, were burned to death by their Christian neighbors. Estimates of the number murdered range from several hundred to more than 2,000. The Cremation of Strasbourg Jewry St. Valentine's Day, February 14, 1349 - About The Great Plague And The Burning Of The Jews In the year 1349 there occurred the greatest epidemic that ever happened. Death went from one end of the earth to the other, on that side and this side of the sea, and it was greater among the Saracens than among the Yet hundreds of years ago Valentine’s Day saw a horrific mass murder when 2,000 Jews were burned alive in the French city of Strasbourg. The year was 1349 and the Bubonic Plague, known as the Black Death, was sweeping across Europe, wiping out whole communities. On February 14, 1349 – St. Valentine’s Day – the Jewish residents of Strasbourg, in Alsace, were burned to death by their Christian neighbors. Estimates of the number murdered range from several hundred to more than 2,000. A wooden hut had been built, in which the Jews were burned alive on Saint Valentine's Day, Saturday, 14 February 1349. Those Jews willing to be baptised, as well as children and attractive women, were spared from being burned alive. The massacre is believed to have lasted six days. Result of the Pogrom The Valentine‘s Day Massacre of 1349. Tragically, Valentine‘s martyrdom would not be the last time February 14th bore witness to senseless violence and loss of life. In 1349, as the Black Death pandemic ravaged Europe, killing an estimated 30-60% of the population, fear and paranoia gripped the public. Even in the modern secular age Saint Valentine’s Day has coincided with noted cases of excessive destruction and violence, be this in the course of war, a reference to the strategically unnecessary fire-bombing of Dresden in 1945, or feuds between criminal gangs, a reference to ‘the notorious ‘Saint Valentine Day’s massacre’ in And only in the centuries after the Valentine’s Day killings, the city’s Jewish community will slowly rebuild itself, but the memory of the massacre will remain. Today, Strasbourg’s opera house sits opposite the cemetery where the 1349 massacre was conducted. Jacob von Königshofen"The Cremation of Strasbourg Jewry, St. Valentine's Day, February 14, 1349—About the Great Plague and the Burning of the Jews" Published in The Jew in the Medieval World, 1938 "The deputies of the city of Strasbourg were asked what they were going to do with their Jews. On St. Valentine’s Day, 1349, a Shabbat, the entire Jewish community of Strasbourg, in France, was massacred, burned alive in the town square while townspeople watched. Afterwards, townspeople searched the corpses, looking for valuables, and the property of Strasbourg’s Jews was distributed to local Gentiles. The Cremation of Strasbourg Jewry St. Valentine's Day, February 14, 1349 - About The Great Plague And The Burning Of The Jews In the year 1349 there occurred the greatest epidemic that ever happened. Death went from one end of the earth to the other, on that side and this side of the sea, and it was greater among the Saracens than among the 5. Saint Valentine’s Day massacre (1929) As morning broke on Valentine’s Day in prohibition-era Chicago, 1929, 4 gangsters entered the hangout of mobster Bugs Moran. Possibly under orders of rival mobster Al Capone, the raiders opened fire on Moran’s henchmen, killing 7 in a shower of bullets. The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang on Saint Valentine's Day 1929. The men were gathered at a Lincoln Park, Chicago , garage on the morning of February 14, 1929. But disliking it because of the Strasbourg massacre is kind of reaching, like hating Halloween because it coincides with the expulsion from England, or the civil new year because of the 1066 Grenada massacre. You'd have to have a very negative view of almost every single day of the year. The Strasbourg massacre occurred on 14 February 1349, when the entire Jewish community of several thousand Jews were publicly burnt to death as part of the Blac
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