The flames of hysteria and superstition engulfed the city of Basel as fear of the Black Death reached a fever pitch. The Jewish population, unfairly scapegoated for the devastating pandemic, was rounded up and brutally burned at the stake. Fueled by paranoia and misinformation, the residents of Basel committed a horrific atrocity, condemning hundreds of innocent lives to a horrific fate. The horrors of that fateful day would haunt the city for generations to come.