One of the many astonishing things about the BBC2 drama The Windermere Children (Monday) was that the real-life story it told isn’t better known already. In August 1945, 300 Jewish children, who just a short time before had been starving in Nazi concentration camps, arrived at a converted seaplane factory in the Lake District.
James Walton
Understated, unashamedly patriotic and heartbreaking: The Windermere Children reviewed
BBC2’s dramatisation of this little-known story about a group of young Holocaust survivors struck the perfect balance between wonder and restraint
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