On this day in ...
... 1940 (70 years ago today), workers in Nazi-occupied Poland began to wall off a part of Warsaw as a ghetto "in which the Germans intend to herd the local Jewish population under dreadful living conditions. The Germans describe the move as a 'health measure.'" For the story of this World War II tragedy, click here.
(Prior November 26 posts are here, here, and here.)