Mina Minna Benedict Benedikt

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ANNO, Gemeinde-Zeitung: unabhängiges politisches Journal, 1865-08-01, Seite 5

http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=gem&datum=18650801&seite...

& ANNO, Mährischer Correspondent <Brünn>, 1863-07-28, Seite 14

http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=mcb&datum=18630728&query...

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ANNO, Wiener Zeitung, 1865-08-20, Seite 6

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Articles about a horrendous axe attack in the Gross Pawlowitz home of the BENEDIKTS on 2 March 1865, in which mother Katharina and two of her daughters were badly injured and the family business book keeper Samuel Hochfeld killed (the father Samuel Benedikt was away at the time).

The assailant - and murderer - a 26 year-old named Franz Melichar, who lived locally - had been seemingly upset by not receiving the right amount of change but admitted after arrest that he had wanted "to kill a Jew". The account also offers interesting information on the Benedikt business - apparently a mix between a shop and an inn - and the ages of the three daughters present at the scene - Rosa 20, Minna 17, Betti 14. The women all showed great courage in the circumstances and all survived their injuries, though Rosa's were life-threatening.