The Polen murder of Anežka Hrůzová, a brutal, still unexplained crime

To this day, it is not known who it was. In a rigged trial, the simple-minded Jew Leopold Hilsner was convicted. The affair, associated with the superstition of a ritual murder and a wave of anti-Semitism, was named after its main actor, the "hilsneriad".
 
Anežka Hrůzová was born on April 16, 1879 in the village of Věžnička (Malá Věžnička). However, the young girl of the Roman Catholic faith did not live to see her twentieth birthday, because someone in…