Bengal famine: Tracking down the last survivors of WW2's forgotten tragedy (www.bbc.com)
Three million died in the 1943 Bengal famine - one man is collecting the remaining survivors' tales.
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Three million died in the 1943 Bengal famine - one man is collecting the remaining survivors' tales.
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