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Events on Saturday 16 November 1940 1
1940Warsaw Ghetto sealedGermans enclose Warsaw's Jews behind wallsOn 16 November the German authorities sealed the Warsaw Ghetto, confining more than 400,000 Jews in about 3.4 square kilometres. Starvation and disease killed tens of thousands. Most of the survivors were deported to Treblinka in 1942.