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Daniel Schieferdecker of the Dresden Trust speaking on the 13th February in Dresden
Dresden Trust Trustee Daniel Schieferdecker speaking in front of the Frauenkirche Dresden on the 13th February, at the commemoration of the bombing of the city in 1945 by Allied forces.
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Research Bursary
The Dresden Trust is proud to advertise a Research Travel Bursary for Postgraduate Students in the UK working on any aspect of a Dresden-related subject in Cultural Studies (literature, music,…
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Donation to Dresden Trust Scholarship Scheme
The Dresden Trust has received a four-figure donation in recognition of its sponsorship of a British schoolboy to spend three weeks in Dresden last autumn attending a school and staying…
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Remembering Dresden; Forgetting Hamburg:Professor William Donahue 15th February 2022
Remembering Dresden; Forgetting Hamburg The assertion of radically different numbers of victims of the horrific bombing of Dresden in February of 1945 prompted the founding of a special historical commission…
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Coventry Cathedral Events 6th November
Reading: Phoenix (Antony Owen) Coventry Cathedral, Priory St, Coventry CV1 5FB Saturday 6 November 2021, 14:00 – 15:00 Coventry’s own Peace Poet, Antony Owen, born and raised in the city,…
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Obituary: Victor Gregg, long term friend and supporter of the Dresden Trust
From the Times 14th October 2021: To say that Victor Gregg was in the wrong place at the wrong time on the night of February 13-14, 1945, would be to…
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Bishop Christopher of Coventry honoured by Germany’s Federal President
On 1 October, the German Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Andreas Michaelis, presented the Bishop of Coventry, The Rt Revd Dr Christopher Cocksworth, with the Commander’s Cross of the Order…
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Dread versus Hope On Michael Göring’s Dresden. Novel of a Family by Rüdiger Görner
Dread versus Hope On Michael Göring’s Dresden. Novel of a Family Rifts, divisions, antagonisms are global phenomena, national traumata, and individual burdens – often too difficult to bear. But…
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Marcus Ferrar, Chairman of The Dresden Trust, addresses students at his old school, the King’s School Worcester
Marcus Ferrar, Chairman of The Dresden Trust, addresses students at his old school, the King’s School Worcester, on the destruction of Dresden and the path to reconciliatio
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