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October 16, 1940
On October 16, 1940, holocaust in Poland: The Warsaw Ghetto is established. Susan Howatch, Willie John McBride, Tom Jones would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · October 16, 1940
Holocaust in Poland: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of the Nazi ghettos during World War II and the Holocaust. It was established in November 1940 by the German authorities within the new General Government territory of occupied Poland. 2 persons per room, barely subsisting on meager food rations.
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The year in brief
1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1940th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 940th year of the 2nd millennium, the 40th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1940s decade.
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On October 16, 1940
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1940 Holocaust in Poland: The Warsaw Ghetto is established. Nazi ghetto in occupied Poland
The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of the Nazi ghettos during World War II and the Holocaust. It was established in November 1940 by the German authorities within the new General Government territory of occupied Poland. 2 persons per room, barely subsisting on meager food rations.
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Other moments from 1940
- April 14 World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway, preceding a larger force which will arrive two days later.
- April 23 The Rhythm Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
- April 7 Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
- April 8 The Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party elects Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal as General Secretary, marking the beginning of his 44-year-long tenure as de facto leader of Mongolia.
- April 9 World War II: Operation Weserübung: Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
- April 9 Vidkun Quisling seizes power in Norway.
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