Description
The Lake District Holocaust Project began in 2005 and has an extensive micro archive assembled over twenty years, and continues to grow. The archive is located a mile from where the wartime village of Calgarth Estate once stood, which was the first UK home for three hundred young Jewish Holocaust survivors who came to the Lake District directly from the camps in 1945.Archaeological work carried out in 2019, 2022 and 2023 included cutting edge technological survey methods to identify what remains of the estate below ground. This was followed by excavations that focused on uncovering the remains of hostels. Each of the six hostels on Calgarth Estate housed fifty people in small, individual rooms, and each room had a bed, chest of drawers and bedroom furniture. For the child Holocaust Survivors, who had spent years in terrible conditions, these hostels were utterly luxurious.
The unique archive generated over the past two decades, and including the archaeological artefacts, is being currently documented and catalogued to enable greater knowledge transfer and closer collaborations with local and international partners, particularly the Jewish Diaspora.
| Period | 1 Jul 2019 → 1 Nov 2025 |
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