The Windermere Children

A feature film. The story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Windermere. The movie the little known story of 300 young orphaned Jewish refugees, who began new lives in England's Lake District in the summer of 1945. With testimonies from some of the last living Holocaust survivors, the 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. The survivor interviews include extraordinary first-hand accounts of both their wartime experiences, separation from their families and the horrors they experienced, but also their wonder at arriving in Britain and their lives thereafter.