Early next month I am walking 50km over 2 days from Carlisle to Windermere in the Lake District in aid of The Fed’s incredible My Voice project.
The date is made all the more poignant as it is the 80th anniversary of the arrival in the UK of some the children who had survived the Theresienstadt ghetto and camp in the Nazi occupied Czech Republic.
Known as the Windermere Children, they landed in Carlisle and were taken to the Calgarth Estate by Lake Windermere (hence the route of the walk) where they stayed for 3 months trying to recover in some way from what they had endured. So many personal stories of trauma, loss and sadness but also of the relationships they formed there and of the lives they went on to rebuild.
This is what the My Voice project is all about, survivors like my mother, Anne Super, whose book A Citizen of the World is part of the project, telling us in their own words, what happened before, during and after something which we today would find utterly unimaginable.
By sponsoring my walk, you sponsor this important historical record. Please do so if you can.