The Windermere Children

Holocaust Survivors on the Kinship Formed at Windermere

Survivors of the Holocaust recall their experience at Windermere. The strong bonds and friendships that were forged during the summer of 1945 continued throughout their lives.

Holocaust Survivors on the Kinship Formed at Windermere

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    The Windermere Children: In Their Own Words

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    In the year that marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II and the Holocaust, this powerful documentary 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.

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