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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 Black Death persecutions. [ 1 ] Starting in the spring of 1348, pogroms against Jews had occurred in European cities, starting in Toulon . 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. 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 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. On February 14th, 1349, the Strasbourg Massacre of Jews occurred, killing 2,000 Jews on a wooden platform in the Jewish cemetery of Strasbourg, France. The Jewish community in Strasbourg is believed to have originated in the 12th century, and was one of the largest Jewish communities in the German Empire. This Day / An Iconic Sculptor Is Born ; 1990: Meir Kahane Is Gunned Down ; 1918: Anti-Jewish Pogroms End in Poland ; The Strasbourg massacre was one of a string of pogroms that took place during this period in a number of towns in Western Europe – 30 alone in the Alsace region, bordering the Rhine River, in what is today France. 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 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. 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. They answered and said that they knew no evil of them. 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 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. The Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre: The mysteries of a crime of state (2015)?JSTOR j.ctt1mf70; Robert Kingdon. Myths about the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacres, 1572–1576 (1988) James R. Smither, "The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre and Images of Kingship in France: 1572–1574." The Sixteenth Century Journal (1991): 27–46. JSTOR 2542014 Valentine's Day Massacre. Valentine's Day Massacre is the one of the most publicized incident of gang war slaying in the history. The gruesome incident was a fall out of the rivalry between two notorious criminal gangs of Chicago - the South Side Italian gang led by Al ‘Scarface' Capone and the North Side Irish gang led by George 'Bugs' Moran. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre occurred about 10:30 a.m. on February 14, 1929, inside the S.M.C. Cartage Company garage at 2122 North Clark Street on the north side of Chicago. Seven men associated with George “Bugs” Moran’s bootlegging operation were waiting inside the garage, presumably for a meeting to buy a hijacked shipment of The massacre of Saint Bartholomew’s Day marked the resumption of religious civil war in France. By: History.com Editors HISTORY.com works with a wide range of writers and editors to create The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre shocked the world on February 14, 1929, when Chicago’s North Side erupted in gang violence. Seven men associated with the Irish gangster George “Bugs The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Feb. 14th, 1929. Seven men machine-gunned to death in Chicago. Al Capone was suspected, but as The Mob Museum will show you, nothing was what it seemed. A commercial garage on the north side of Chicago was the setting for the most horrific shooting in Mob history, the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. On February 14, 1929, seven members and associates of George “Bugs” Moran’s bootlegging gang were lined up against a wall and shot dead inside the garage at 2122 North Clark Street. Link to the very similar Polygram Industries Messageries pressing: Motörhead / Girlschool - St. Valentines Day Massacre - Track A 'Please Don't Touch' is written by 2 people, but credited to "Heath Robinson", as if it is one person, published by Multimood Music Ltd. 聖バレンタインデーの虐殺（せいバレンタインデーのぎゃくさつ、英: St. Valentine's Day Massacre）は、1929年 2月14日にシカゴで起きたノースサイド・ギャングとサウスサイド・ギャング（後のシカゴ・アウトフィット）との間で起きた抗争事件である。
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