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The Windermere Children: In Their Own Words

The Windermere Children: In Their Own Words

2020•59m
DocumentaryTV Movie

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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Iain Glen

Iain Glen

narrator

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