Re: Please share partition stories 
There are many heart wrenching stories. One particularly made me sad is that of two sisters who also arrived at the same refugee camp where my maternal family was. They were 14-15 years old a that time and migrated with agroup of people. They had a younger brother 5-6 years old. Their group was attacked by sikhs, the men told women and children to run away as they tried to fight them off. The girls grabbed their brother and tried to run but the boy wanted to go back to his male relatives. He started biting them and kicking them and went back to men who were fighting sikhs. The girls along with other women and children left and made it to refugee camp. Few months later when the clashes had died down, a migrating family told them they had seen a boy of that age in that area who alone and crying. They requested my uncle to go and bring him back. The girls became so hopeful that they made a small bed (charpai) for their brother. My uncle went to look for him but found out that all the men including the child of that group were killed.