When Capistrano arrives at Breslau, a report is circulated that one Meyer, a wealthy Jew, had bought a host from a peasant and desecrated it.

Thereupon the local authorities arrest the representatives of the Breslau Jewish community and confiscate their houses and property for the benefit of the city.

Capistrano, who personally conducts the investigation of the so-called blasphemy, manages by means of tortures to wring from a few of the victims false confessions of the crimes ascribed to them.

As a result, more than forty Jews are burned at the stake in Breslau on June 2, 1453.

Others, fearing torture, commit suicide; a rabbi, Pinheas, hangs himself.

The remaining Jews are driven out of the city, while their younger children are taken from them and baptized by force.