July 17 1883 – 12 Tammuz 5643
Tisza Ezlar, Hungary
After discrediting the sole witness to a supposed ritual murder, the court
dismissed the case. Four days before Pesach, a Christian girl named
Esther Salomossy of Tisza Ezlar had disappeared. Rumors had spread that
Jews had kidnapped her to bake her blood into matza. Sixteen were
arrested and imprisoned for murder until the trial began in mid-1883. They
were finally acquitted after it was proven that the son of the local kosher
butcher, who’d been threatened into testifying against his father, could not
possibly have seen the killing through his keyhole, as claimed.
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