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==Accounts==
==Accounts==
Author Madhusree Mukerjee tracked down some of the survivors and described the chilling details of the effects of hunger and deprivation. In the book, "Churchill's Secret War", she wrote, "Parents dumped their starving children into rivers and wells. Many took their lives by throwing themselves in front of trains. Starving people begged for the starchy water in which rice had been boiled. Children ate leaves and vines, yam stems and grass. People were too weak even to cremate their loved ones."<ref>http://indiafacts.org/remembering-forgotten-holocaust-india/</ref>
Author Madhusree Mukerjee tracked down some of the survivors and described the chilling details of the effects of hunger and deprivation. In the book, "Churchill's Secret War", she wrote, "Parents dumped their starving children into rivers and wells. Many took their lives by throwing themselves in front of trains. Starving people begged for the starchy water in which rice had been boiled. Children ate leaves and vines, yam stems and grass. People were too weak even to cremate their loved ones."<ref>http://indiafacts.org/remembering-forgotten-holocaust-india/</ref>
"No one had the strength to perform rites", a survivor tells Mukerjee. "Dogs and jackals feasted on piles of dead bodies in Bengal's villages." The ones who got away were men who migrated to Calcutta for jobs and women who turned to prostitution to feed their families. "Mothers had turned into murderers, village belles into whores, fathers into traffickers of daughters," writes Mukerjee.
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==References==