Mainz Massacre

Date: May 27, 1096 • Location: Mainz, Germany

The largest of the Rhineland massacres (depicted) took place in Mainz, where at least 1,100 Jews were killed by the People's Crusade.

The Rhineland massacres, also known as the German Crusade of 1096, were a series of mass murders of Jews in the Rhineland which took place in 1096, which is the year 4856 in the Hebrew calendar, which is abbreviated in Hebrew as Hebrew: גזרות תתנ״ו, romanized: taṯnu They were perpetrated by mobs of Catholic Christian French and German peasants during the People's Crusade.