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Synopsis
The story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Windermere. In the year that marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II and the Holocaust, this powerful documentary, which accompanies the BBC Two drama, The Windermere Children, reveals a little-known story of 300 young orphaned Jewish refugees, who began new lives in England’s Lake District in the summer of 1945. With compelling testimony from some of the last living Holocaust survivors, the film explores an extraordinary success story that emerged from the darkest of times,
Original title The Windermere Children
TMDb Rating 7.5 17 votes
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Cast
Oscar Friedmann
Marie Paneth
Jock Lawrence
Leonard Montefiore
Berish Lerner
Georg Lauer
Edith Lauer
Rabbi Weiss
Schmuel 'Sam' Laskier
Benyak 'Ben' Helfgott