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Route to Paradise
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Wikipedia article
'Route to Paradise' is a 2020 British short documentary film written, produced and directed by Thomas Gardner. The film follows a team of archaeologists from Staffordshire University as they attempt to uncover the former Calgarth Estate, the site where 300 Jewish children were re-located to after being liberated from Nazi Germany's concentration camps during the Holocaust.Thomas, Andrew. [https://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/17721487.documentary-to-capture-stories-of-lake-districts-links-to-holocaust-survivors/ "Story of Holocaust link to area to be retold"] 'The Westmorland Gazette'. 29 June 2019
Development
During Christmas 2018, artist and curator Trevor Avery approached filmmaker Thomas Gardner to make a film about the excavation and surveying of the former Calgarth Estate.Zeller, Mike. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07bjm57 "Documentary on Calgarth Estate announced"] 'BBC Radio Cumbria'. 21 June 2019Smith, Rosemary. [https://ldhp.org.uk/?page_id=1781 "Holocaust documentary planned for 'The Windermere Boys'"] 'Lake District Holocaust Project'. 5 February 2019 An appeal was later released into the press for stories and photographs pertaining to the survivors from local residents who had been around during their time in the Lake District. The planned dig had been given the go ahead after being funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Production
Principal photography began early February 2019 in Owicim, Poland at Auschwitz concentration camp.Smith, Rosemary. [https://ldhp.org.uk/?page_id=2254 "Filming begins for Holocaust documentary"]. 'Lake District Holocaust Project'. February 17, 2019. Production was then moved back to the UK, where the crew spent two weeks filming on the grounds at The Lakes School with the archaeologists when the excavation began on July 15, 2019,[https://blogs.staffs.ac.uk/archaeology/2019/07/20/survey-and-excavation-begins-in-the-lake-district/ "Planned excavation of Calgarth Estate gets underway"]. 'Staffordshire University'. 20 July 2019 then travelled to Nottingham to interview Norman Shepherd, a flight engineer with RAF Squadron 196. He was on the flight that brought the Windermere Children to England and is the last surviving member of the crew for that flight. The film was shot over a period of 5 months, featuring interviews with Arek Hersh and Sam Gontarz, two of the 300 children who had been liberated from concentration camps and re-settled in England. The main bulk of the footage came from survivor testimonies intertwined with footage from the excavation/survey of the Calgarth Estate, headed by forensic archaeologist Caroline Sturdy Colls[http://www.staffs.ac.uk/news/2019/01/staffordshire-archaeologists-to-help-unearth-story-of-holocaust-survivors "Staffordshire achaeologists to help unearth story of Holocaust survivors"]. 'Staffordshire University'. 15 January 2019JC Reporter. [https://www.thejc.com/lottery-funds-dig-at-home-of-child-holocaust-survivors-1.478802 "Survey to take place at Second World War site"]. 'The Jewish Chronicle'. 18 January 2019 who is most famous for her forensic examination of the Treblinka extermination camp.
It was released on YouTube in 2020.
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