The Lake District Holocaust Project
In 1945 the people of Lakeland welcomed three hundred child Holocaust Survivors into their community. The children were to spend a period of recuperation in the Lakes before setting out on new lives.
“Lake District Holocaust Project holds a comprehensive archive of artefacts, documents, photographs and oral history testimonies that tell both the story of the arrival of the Jewish children and of the community who welcomed them. 
Arriving in the Lake District was described by the children as like being in “Paradise”. It must have seemed so following years of unimaginable horror in the concentration camps and ghettos of Nazi Occupied Europe.
Lake District Holocaust Project is produced and managed by Another Space, a registered education charity, and has progressed enormously since it began in 2005.
The project has evolved to provide a hugely important and significant contribution to the historical and cultural sphere in the Lake District, especially in the field of Holocaust and Post Holocaust education.
The work in Cumbria and northwest England has grown to encompass national and international initiatives. It has a unique approach to telling the story by focussing on the recovery and rehabilitation of the young Jewish camp survivors that includes the welcome they received from the residents of Calgarth Estate and Windermere.
Lake District Holocaust Project holds a comprehensive archive of artefacts, documents, photographs and oral history testimonies that tell both the story of the arrival of the Jewish children and of the community who welcomed them.
It develops projects locally, nationally and internationally that focus on the teaching of understanding between individuals and cultures, and the importance of empathy and compassion for others.
The Lake District Holocaust Project organises visits for primary and secondary schools to the exhibition in Windermere Library and to the former site of the Calgarth Estate where the children arrived in 1945 and have run a variety of workshops with direct reference to the child Holocaust survivors’ story.
It is uniquely successful in ensuring that the teaching of this story remains relevant to people young and old, in schools, community centres, social spaces or visitors to the exhibition.
The work of the Lake District Holocaust Project seeks to ensure that the lessons of the Holocaust and the recovery of the Jewish children are taught at the heart of schools and the community and that these lessons are applied to everyday situations.
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“Lake District Holocaust Project holds a comprehensive archive of artefacts, documents, photographs and oral history testimonies that tell both the story of the arrival of the Jewish children and of the community who welcomed them.