The Windermere Children: The Movie
Event Details
Event by Ozark Dale County Library
In Solemn Remembrance of Holocaust Remembrance Day & the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, The Library presents a showing of
The Windermere Children: The Movie
Rated: PG-13
Synopsis:
August, 1945. A coachload of children arrives at the Calgarth Estate by Lake Windermere. They are child survivors of the Nazi Holocaust that has devastated Europe’s Jewish population. Carrying only the clothes they wear and a few meager posssessions, they bear the
emotional and physical scars of all they have suffered.
Charged with looking after them is Oscar Friedmann, a German-born child psychologist. He and his team of counselors have just four months to help the children reclaim their lives. By the lake, the children eat, learn English, play football, and ride bikes. They yearn for news of their loved ones. Some locals taunt them, but they are embraced by others. In this environment, they begin to heal.
“The Windermere Children” is the stark, moving and ultimately redemptive story of the bonds they make with one another, and of how the friendships forged at Windermere become a lifeline to a fruitful future.
