Zurich officials unveiled a plaque to commemorate the approximately 150 Jews who were killed there 650 years ago. “The flourishing Jewish community of medieval Zurich was brutally extinguished” in that pogrom, a city official said at the ceremony. Community members were burned, beaten and murdered after being blamed for a plague, known as the Black Death, sweeping across Europe at the time. Only a handful escaped.
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