The Duchess of Cambridge sat down to speak with surviving 'Windermere children' during a visit to Cumbria today alongside the television personality Judge Rinder.
Kate Middleton, 39, who resumed her public duties last week after a summer break, appeared in high spirits as she met with some of the Holocaust survivors who were rescued from concentration camps and taken to the Lake District.
The royal, who sported her khaki coloured Seeland puffer jacket and a pair of black jeans, heard how the survivors lives changed forever when they were brought to Cumbria and given the opportunity to begin healing at the end of the Second World War.
She later took a boat ride with two surviving Windermere children along Lake Windermere.
The duchess was joined by television personality and barrister Robert 'Judge' Rinder whose own family members were mercilessly shot and buried alive by Nazis in a shallow grave during the Second World War.
The Windermere children were a group of 300 orphaned Jewish refugees who began new lives in the Lake District in 1945 after they were rescued from Nazi concentration camps.
The Duchess of Cambridge, 39, who resumed her public duties last week after a summer break, spoke with surviving 'Windermere children' during a visit to Cumbria today
The Duchess of Cambridge was joined by the television personality and barrister Robert 'Judge' Rinder whose own family members were mercilessly shot and buried alive by Nazis in a shallow grave during the Second World War
The royal appeared in high spirits as she sat down to speak with the Holocaust survivors who were rescued from concentration camps and taken to the Lake District
Last year, television judge Robert Rinder learnt how members of his family were shot and buried alive by Nazis in a shallow grave during the Second World War during the two-part programme My Family, the Holocaust and Me, on BBC.
The programme saw Rinder re-tracing the Levin family on his grandfather's side and travel to Voranava in Belarus, where he had a 'heartbreaking' conversation with 97-year-old Helena Sheshko.
Ms Sheshko vividly remembered the moment men, women and children were rounded up and killed, or buried alive, in a trench in the town in May 1942.
In her native Russian, she recounted how the mound of earth was 'moving for several days'.
Rinder was told how his family on his grandfather's side, the Levins, were forced to move to Voranava in 1941 from their home in the Lithuanian
