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Based on the experience of child survivors of the Holocaust, it follows the children and staff of a camp set up on the Calgarth Estate in Troutbeck Bridge, near Lake Windermere, England, where the survivors were helped to rehabilitate, rebuild their lives, and integrate into the British society.
Apr 5, 2020 · The Windermere Children: Directed by Michael Samuels. With Thomas Kretschmann, Romola Garai, Iain Glen, Tim McInnerny. This is the stark, moving, and ultimately redemptive story of the bonds these children make with one another, and of how the friendships forged at Windermere become a lifeline to a fruitful future.
- (3.7K)
- Drama, War
- Michael Samuels
- 2020-04-05
A coachload of children arrive at the Calgarth Estate by Lake Windermere. They are child survivors of the Nazi Holocaust that has devastated Europe’s Jewish population. Carrying only the clothes they wear and a few meagre possessions, they bear the emotional and physical scars of all they have suffered.
Jan 27, 2020 · The Windermere Children will tell the remarkable true story of a group of child Holocaust survivors. On the 75th International Holocaust Memorial Day, the special 90 minute film will go...
Aug 2, 2022 · ‘The Windermere Children’ is a biographical tale that recounts the story of around 300 Jewish children, all of them refugees of World War II. The film follows the rehabilitation of the children, who are freed from the concentration camps, and land up in England.
Jan 27, 2020 · August, 1945. A coachload of children arrive at the Calgarth Estate by Lake Windermere. They are child survivors of the Nazi Holocaust that has devastated Europe’s Jewish population.
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With compelling first-hand testimony from some of the last living Holocaust survivors, this film explores an extraordinary success story that emerged from the darkest of times, all beginning with the arrival of ten Stirling bombers carrying the 300 children from Prague to Carlisle on 14 August 1945.
