Portrait of Menachem Mendel Beilis.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 32341

Date: March 1920
Locale: Kiev, [Ukraine] USSR
Photo Designation: PERSONALITIES: JEWS -- Names (B)
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Morris Rosen

Biography: Menachem Beilis (1874-1934) was the victim of a blood libel charge in 1911 when the Czarist government held him reponsible for the murder of a 12 year old boy, Andrei Yushchinsky. Though evidence showed that the crime was committed by a gang of thieves, under pressure from the antisemitic "Black Hundred" organization, the district attorney of Kiev labeled the murder a blood libel and held the Jewish community responsible. Menachem Beilis, owner of a brick kiln where the boy was last seen, was arrested and held for two years. His trial, held in 1913, eventually acquitted him of the charges. Beilis, fearing for his safety, emigrated from Russia, first to Palestine and later to the United States.
Keyword: BEILIS, MENACHEM MENDEL
CLOSE-UPS
JEWS (RUSSIAN/SOVIET)
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Morris Rosen
: Record last modified: 2003-07-30 00:00:00
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