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  1. A new BBC Two drama, The Windermere Children, tells the little-known stories of some of the 300 orphaned Jewish refugees who began new lives in England’s Lake...

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  2. The Windermere Children is an emotionally powerful film (although by no means as harrowing and masterfully made as Schindler's List) that tells an important part of the Holocaust refugee story ...

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    • Thomas Kretschmann
    • Michael Samuels
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  3. 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.

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    • What Happened to The Child Psychologist and Counselors?

    After the war, 305 (and a stowaway) child survivors were brought to the shores of Britain in the summer of 1945. The Jewish refugees had been liberated from the concentration camps, as the war came to an end. Not only were they long separated from their families, but they had no possessions, and no one to return to. The children came from different...

    Many of the actual Windermere children have grown up to become hugely successful in life. Ike Alterman was born in Poland and eventually reached Windermere, after stints at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Theresienstadt. He settled in Manchester, building an extraordinary career as a jeweler and diamond mounter. Sam Laskier was also born in Warsaw, Pola...

    Oscar Friedmann was born in Germany in 1903. He trained as a teacher and social worker, specializing in working with delinquent boys. Before the war started, Oscar was sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Oranienburg. He was released in 1938 and intended to return to Germany. However, he settled in England and worked with the Windermere ki...

  4. Jan 27, 2020 · 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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  5. 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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  7. 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 back...

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