There were altogether five beard cutting attacks committed by members of the Bergholz Community. The first took place on September 6, 2011, the last on November 9, 2011.Donald B. Kraybill: Renegade Amish - Beard Cutting, Hate Crimes, and the Trial of the Bergholz Barbers, Baltimore, MD 2014, page XVI. The victims were mostly Amish relatives of the people from Bergholz, who had either left the Bergholz community or openly opposed it. Raymond Hershberger, a bishop, not related to the Bergholz Community, who opposed them, was also victim of a beard cutting attack.Donald B. Kraybill: Renegade Amish - Beard Cutting, Hate Crimes, and the Trial of the Bergholz Barbers, Baltimore, MD 2014, pages 9-10.
