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Three million died in the 1943 Bengal famine ... Tracking down the last survivors of WW2's forgotten tragedy. 23 February ... The devastating story of the Bengal Famine of 1943 in British India, ...

In 1943, during World War Two, Bengal in British-run India was hit with a severe shortage of food. Following the Japanese occupation of Burma, the Allied forces had halted the movement of food in ...

The Bengal famine of 1943 killed more than three million people in eastern India. It was one of the worst losses of civilian life on the Allied side in World War Two. There is no memorial, museum ...