last thursday afternoon (1st november), 3.00-3.30pm (repeated 6.07am saturday), on bbc radio 4
the windermere boys (presented by helen mark) (in the open country series)
“Helen Mark discovers the true story of the ‘Windermere Boys’, the three hundred child holocaust survivors who found rehabilitation and a new life in the Lake District nearly 70 years ago.
Arriving in the immense and beautiful Cumbrian landscape many of them thought they’d found paradise. Helen meets the survivors, the community that welcomed them and the children that are keeping their memory alive today.”
including interviews with …
• trevor avery of the lake district holocaust project
• ’windermere boy’ sam laskier
• ’windermere boy’ ike alterman
• kevin coulter, friend of ‘windermere boy’ mendel preter at ethel hedley hospital
(if you missed it, available at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000xrc)
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