In 1945, hundreds of children liberated from concentration camps were flown into a tiny town in the Lake District to begin new lives. Their journey has been dramatised by the screenwriter Simon Block and the result is a timely and moving BBC film The Windermere Children, starring Thomas Kretschmann and Romola Garai, to be shown this month, 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. “But I wrote it, and then after that I could speak, I could talk about it.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘I was very, very lucky’: Arek Hersh, Holocaust survivor, photographed at his home near Leeds. There is a powerful moment in The Windermere Children when one of the children is reunited with a long-lost brother, who he has been told has probably died. “The Windermere children are the most patriotic people I’ve ever come across,” he says.

Source: The Guardian January 05, 2020 10:52 UTC