Documentary Description
To mark Passover, a remarkable story of liberation from the
Holocaust.
It's the story of 300 Jewish orphans who having been captured by the
Nazis defied the odds against their survival, and lived to tell the tale
in Windermere. The group of 300 orphans were separated from their
parents and taken from the ghettos to camps like Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Either by luck, instinct or alertness, they somehow managed to escape
the selection process that led to the gas chambers. Even as the Allies
were closing in on the Nazis, the orphans were sent on to death marches
across frozen Europe, deep into German territory. Although finally
liberated in May 1945, their fight to live continued as they were
orphans. Where could they go? Windermere in the Lake District proved to
be their promised land. With many of them now in their eighties, and for
the first time on British television, four of those orphans tell their
story of extraordinary human resilience.
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