The Jewish community of York, facing murderous attacks by crusading knights and debtors who wished to destroy evidence of loans, took refuge in the royal castle (Clifford Tower). Besieged by the mob, they chose mass suicide rather than fall into the attackers' hands. Those who surrendered were killed. The massacre was one of the worst episodes of medieval English antisemitism and its memory has shaped York's civic identity.
c.150 Jews killed or died by suicide
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