Recognition as a Crime and Commemoration
- When
- 1782, with commemoration ninety years later
- Where
- Gnadenhutten massacre site and martyrs' shrine
- Part of
- Gnadenhutten Massacre
Missionary accounts led to recognition of the massacre as a crime against humanity; a martyrs' shrine monument was dedicated ninety years later.
As the details of the massacre published by the Moravian missionaries became generally known, it was recognized as a crime against humanity. Reliable accounts came from the missionaries and from two Moravian Indian boys, Jacob and Thomas, who escaped. Ninety years after the massacre, a Chief of the Christian Munsee tribe erected and dedicated a monument at the shrine to the Moravian Christian Indian Martyrs; the victims' graves contain bones gathered by missionaries some time after the massacre.
Sources
- Gnadenhutten massacre Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-25
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