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- This is the stark, moving, and ultimately redemptive story of the bonds these children make with one another, and of how the friendships forged at Windermere become a lifeline to a fruitful future.
- 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 foreign country were dramatised in The Windermere Children (2020). It also describes their experiences as they were rounded up by the Germans in their home towns and taken by cattle train to concentration camps such as Auschwitz.
- The film follows a team of forensic archaeologists as they attempt to uncover the former Calgarth Estate, the site where 300 Jewish children were re-located to after being liberated from the Nazi Concentration Camps during The Holocaust.
- In 2019, the remaining Windermere Children and their families flew to Prague to recreate the iconic photograph taken of them before they boarded the planes in 1945. This film chronicles the showing of a film made about that trip in 2019.
- Tom Palmer and Simon Robinson take part in a triathlon to raise money for the Lake District Holocaust Project on the anniversary of The Windermere Children's arrival at the Calgarth Estate.
- In this moving episode TV's Robert "Judge" Rinder follows the story of his grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, hearing first hand testimony of the horror of Nazi forced labour camps as well as of the hope offered by a new life in Lake Windermere. Investigating the dark mystery surrounding his great-grandfather leads Robert to a small town in Latvia, where he uncovers a story of mental illness and trauma which will ultimately, he hopes, lay some ghosts to rest.
- Paul learns why early tourists thought the Lakes one of the most dangerous spots in the country. He plunges into long distance swimming, helps on the boats and meets a Holocaust survivor.