Now, Montefiore needed to find somewhere for the children to stay. The government suggested a former aircraft factory in Windermere in the Lake District, which had had accommodation for its workforce.

in a scene from "The Windermere Children." The story follows a group of child Holocaust survivors who are transported to the Calgarth Estate by Lake Windermere, England in August 1945. Carrying ...

The United Kingdom created a temporary sanctuary near the idyllic backdrop of Lake Windermere for nearly 1,000 children who lived through the Holocaust (the reasons why the U.K. did this are left ...

Yesterday (Monday, January 27) is Holocaust Memorial Day and marks 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. BBC Two aired The Windermere Children, based on the true story of the ...

TODAY, the Lake District Holocaust Project will be marking the 78th anniversary of the day the Windermere Children landed near Carlisle in the wake of the Holocaust. Around 300 Jewish child ...

The first permanent exhibition recording the role played by Windermere in the ... Estate on the shores of the lake. The two events are linked as the children occupied the temporary accommodation ...

He was one of 300 Jewish children who were brought to the Calgarth Estate near Lake Windermere to begin new lives after the horrors of the Holocaust. Harry Olmer in Mill Hill, London in 1946.

A teddybear has taken a cruise on a lake in Cumbria to highlight a children’s charity. The cute cuddly toy took a cruise across Windermere to highlight the work of the charity Teddies for Loving ...