TEARS of sadness and joy were shed when a group of school friends who came together during the war gathered for a very special meeting for the first time in 60 years.

Memories of the Kindertransport, which bought 24 children fleeing persecution from the Nazis to Windermere, were shared on Tuesday (March 20) when one of the former refugees returned to the town.

Ruth David (née Oppenheimer) spoke movingly of her experiences living as a Jewish refugee in Windermere during the Second World War, at a special talk at the Marchesi Centre, in which she was reunited with some of her old school friends for the first time in decades.

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