The Windermere Children
BBC2

Broadcast on the day that marked 75 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp, The Windermere Children (27 January), relied for its effects on quietness. Everything about it was subtle and sensitive – and all the more powerful for that.

Its subject was the Calgarth estate in Windermere, where in 1945 a collection of prefab homes, once used to house factory workers making flying boats, became accommodation for 300 children who had survived the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Theresienstadt. At Calgarth they were cared for by adult volunteers who had to work out how best to help heal the traumas of an unprecedented modern horror.

Sometimes they were simply overwhelmed by a feeling of helplessness in the face of the children’s experience. But this is a drama in which almost everyone is kind – which feels like a rarity.