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The Windermere Children: In Their Own Words

The Windermere Children: In Their Own Words

2020TV Movie⏱️ 1h 0mNot Rated
DocumentaryHistoryWar
8.1
IMDB Rating
153 votes

Interviews with former children who survived the Holocaust concentration camps and who were rehabilitated in a disused aircraft factory overlooking Lake Windermere in the UK, and whose experiences in adjusting to freedom in a fore...

Director
N/A
Writers
N/A
Stars
Iain Glen, Trevor Avery, Icek Alterman
Release Date
January 27, 2020
Language
English
Country
United Kingdom, Germany
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Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Iain Glen
Iain Glen
as Self - Narrator
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Trevor Avery
as Self - Historian
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Icek Alterman
as Self
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Schmuel Lasker
as Self
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Arek Hersh
as Self
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Harry Spiro
as Self
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Jan Goldberger
as Self
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Chaim Olmer
as Self
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Tony Kushner
as Self - University of Southampton
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Bela Rosenthal
as Self

🎬 Technical Specs

Color
Color
Production
Warner Bros. International Television, Wall to Wall, BBC Studios

🏷️ Keywords

world war twoconcentration campnazi germany

🎯 Categories

DocumentaryHistoryWar

⭐ Featured Review

Saving the children and a grand experiment in nature vs nurture.
by TxMike2020-06-07

"This program is broadcast on PBS. Humans over the years have done lots of experimenting with non-human animals but experimenting with humans is generally forbidden. However at times the experiments just happen for unrelated reasons, giving us insights otherwise unavailable. That is how I prefer to view this program, 300 orphan Jewish children, Holocaust survivors, are placed at an English estate near Lake Windermere, former site of a seaplane factory, where they grow back to normalcy in circumstances way foreign to their homeland. The results are very interesting and the presentation is well..."

📖 Synopsis

Interviews with former children who survived the Holocaust concentration camps and who were rehabilitated in a disused aircraft factory overlooking Lake Windermere in the UK, and whose experiences in adjusting to freedom in a fore...