WARSAW. Panic in the Church of the Holy Cross from December 25, 1881; wood. color, duplicated with cardboard

WARSAW. Panic in the Church of the Holy Cross on December 25, 1881; wood. color, duplicated on cardboard, condition bdb., minor soiling; dimensions: 233x167mm; Die Katastrophe in der Kreuzkirche zu Warschau am 25. December 1881. Nach einer Skizze .

Panic broke out in the Church of the Holy Cross during mass, after someone raised the cry: Gore! Twenty people were lost. The fire was not actually there. A Jew involved in pickpocketing was suspected of raising the false alarm. Rumors about this caused an anti-Jewish pogrom to erupt.