THE WINDERMERE CHIDREN: 2020 (Fandango at Home rental $2.99) Holly V., IL said this, in recommending the movie: It was wonderful movie. She is right, It is a wonderful movie. It pulls at our heartstrings so that, as the Jewish people told us, we never forget. The Windermere Children is a 2020 British biographical drama television film written by Simon Block and directed by Michael Samuels. Based on the experience of child survivors of the Holocaust, it follows the children and staff of a camp set up on the Calgarth Estate in Troutbeck Bridge, near Lake Windermere, England, where the survivors were helped to rehabilitate, rebuild their lives, and integrate into the British society. On a summer in 1945, a bus carrying orphaned Holocaust survivors heads to Lake Windermere, England. They speak no English and are deeply traumatized by their time in the death camps. 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. Over 700 children were at Windermere. There is a soccer game between the boys at the camp and the town of Windermere that is significant to the story. I was particularly moved by the old men at the end who tell what Windermere meant to them. Rotten Tomatoes has a critics’ score of 100%. So they agree with Gary and me and Holly!. GRADE A