Where Once We Walked will form part of the Windermere Boys exhibition open to the public from Sunday 29th January to Thursday 31st May 2012 at the Manchester Jewish Museum. A live performance will take place on wednesday the 11th of April [link]. The Exhibition is produced in conjunction with Another Space who originally commissioned the work with support from Arts Council England.
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The Windermere Boys exhibition tells the story of 300 Jewish children who, having survived the Holocaust, found a haven in Windermere. The 300 children, now known as “The Windermere Boys”, landed near Carlisle in August 1945. They had been transported to the UK for recuperation and were to stay in hostel accommodation provided for them on the now ‘lost’ wartime village of Calgarth Estate which stood near Windermere. These children later found homes around the country but many of them came to Manchester and settled into the Jewish community here.
As one of the Windermere Boys reflected:
“I was reborn in Windermere in 1945. The promise of England was a dream to a teenage boy who no longer believed he could believe in dreams. But it happened”.
The Museum has worked in association with The Lake District Holocaust Project, based in Windermere Library to produce an exhibition that explores the connections between Manchester, the Lake District and the Holocaust including newly unearthed photographs, documents and interviews with ‘The Boys’. The exhibition will also features the work of a number of artists who have interpreted ‘The Boys’ story through music, video, photographs and paintings.
‘Thought-provoking, beautifully subtle and deeply moving, this series of five compositions delicately weaves together the history of the past with the sounds of the present. Simply stunning.’ Cheryl Tipp | Wildlife Sounds Curator, British Library.
