The Windermere Children: `Listening to the survivors talk is overwhelming`
(WorldNews Entertainment)

Silence falls as the credits to The Windermere Children roll - actors and audience moved in equal measure. From screenwriter Simon Block and director Michael Samuels, the BBC Two drama tells the remarkable - and often unknown - true story of a group of young Holocaust survivors who were brought to the Calgarth Estate by Lake Windermere for a new life in the UK. With only the clothes on their back and carrying a few meagre possessions, the children bear the scars of all they have suffered at the hands of the Nazis, a regime that devastated Europe`s Jewish population. And today`s praise is more pertinent than ever due to the fact the crowd is dotted with the now-elderly survivors whose very...