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The Lisbon massacre started on Sunday, 19 April 1506 in Lisbon when a crowd of churchgoers attacked and killed several people in the congregation whom they suspected were Jews. The violence escalated into a city-wide, anti-semitic riot that killed as many as 4,000 " new Christians " ( cristãos-novos ), the name for Jews who had been forcibly ...
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Apr 19, 2015 · Chroniclers reported that more than 500 Jews were killed in Lisbon that Sunday — and the violence continued the following day. Extensive looting took place as well. The king was away from the capital, and some attempts by the legal authorities to quash the rioting were quickly rebuffed.
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Jan 4, 2024 · As many as 4,000 Jews were brutally murdered in the Lisbon massacre between April 19 and 21, 1506. By BROOKE SARAH BORDEN. JANUARY 4, 2024 11:20. Updated: JANUARY 6, 2024 14:24. Poster for the...
Jan 29, 2024 · They appear to have left soon after the Lisbon Massacre of 1506, an antisemitic pogrom that killed thousands of Jews. This was only 14 years after my family entered Portugal from Spain after the Spanish Jews were expelled by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella’s infamous edict and 12 years since they tried to leave Portugal only to be forced to ...
Apr 5, 1998 · IN 1506, a killing frenzy swept through Lisbon. Some 2,000 forcibly converted new Christians were murdered and dragged to the stake at the public square. Crowds rampaged the streets, maiming and...
Nevertheless, historian A.J. Saraiva tells us that the community of former Jews was on its way to integration when on April 9, 1506 at Lisbon, a mob killed two thousands of New Christians, accused of being the cause of drought and plague that devastated the country.
Large numbers of refugees, including some 60,000 to 80,000 Jews, continued to pass through Portugal on route for the United States and Latin America throughout the war although their numbers fell significantly from 1941. Lisbon was permitted to accommodate a number of foreign Jewish relief organisations.
