Hello, I was awake around 11 pm last night long enough to watch parts of 2 shows on a PBS station. One was about "How STRESS - kills !" Part of what I saw on the show was a discussion about the "Hunger Winter" which occurred in The Netherlands" in 1944. It is also referred to as "the Dutch Famine of 1944." The Dutch famine of 1944 (known as hongerwinter ("Hunger winter") in Dutch) was a famine that took place in the occupied nothern part of the Netherlands during the winter of 1944-1945, near the end of World War II. A total of 18,000 people died during the famine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_famine_of_1944 Many researchers have heard about the famine in Ireland, but I don't remember hearing about this other famine. Oh, I just went to Google for the "Irish famine" and found this Google/Book which might interest some. The title reminds me that the "Potato Famine" happened 100 years before the "Dutch famine." http://books.google.com/books?id=LK08EdwvCIcC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=%22Potato+Famine+Ireland%22&source=bl&ots=aL9tOPwkVe&sig=Lrrsv4pphKgR_Hx_3u9Ec3ZqC4Q&hl=en&ei=lFu7So3GA8KylAfiuvG8DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6#v=onepage&q=%22Potato%20Famine%20Ireland%22&f=false http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland) One reminder here is that my KERR and HENDERSON ancestors left Ireland in 1823 - some 20 years before the Potato Famine. And, my HANNAH / RITCHIE couple left in 1857. They were born in Ireland but married in Scotland and left from there. Just "food for thought" this morning -- which the people in the U.K. for hundreds of years did not have ! Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) List Administrator