1 real historical location · United Kingdom
A BBC film depicting the true story of 300 young Holocaust survivors brought to the Lake District in 1945 to begin recovery. One of the few WWII films focused entirely on healing rather than fighting, it shows the enormous task of rebuilding lives shattered by the camps.
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Three hundred child Holocaust survivors arrive at Lake Windermere in 1945 — many too traumatised to speak, most having lost their entire families — and begin...
In August 1945, 300 Jewish child survivors from the Nazi camps were flown to Windermere under a scheme organised by Leonard Montefiore and the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad. Most were orphans from Theresienstadt....
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