Apprentice cobbler, Jewish, from the Bohemian town of Polná, who was accused of ritual murder in 1899 of the Christian virgin Anežka Hrůzová, who had been brutally raped. There was talk of Koscherung (throat-cutting), to obtain Christian blood for the Passover. The event was known as the "Hilsner Affair," and the anti-semitically inspired trial as the "Hilsner Case" or "Hilsner Trial." At first sentenced to death, Hilsner had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, and in 1918 he was pardoned by the Emperor.

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