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Review of The Windmere Children: Innocence and hope in the face of evil

Written by Simon Block and directed by Michael Samuels. Rating: ****(4 stars) On 27 January 1945, the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp was liberated by the Red Army. But can humanity ever wipe out the slur of the evil that one man named Adolf Hitler perpetrated on the Jews? Great films about Nazi atrocities such as Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List and Alan Pakula’s Sophie’s Choice took us straight into the horrors of Nazi Germany. The Windmere Children chooses a path of refreshing departure. It brings to us the true-life story of young holocaust survivors, c | Click Here...