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From Nazi camps to the Lake District: the story of the Windermere children

13 mins | Jan 11, 2020
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91-year-old survivor Arek Hersh talks about his experience. In 1945, hundreds of children liberated from concentration camps were flown into a tiny town in the Lake District to begin new lives. On the eve of a BBC dramatisation of their story, Tim Lewis writing in the Guardian speaks to survivor Arek Hersh.

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