Monica Petzal, artist and Trustee of the Dresden Trust, on 10th November 2015 opened exhibitions of works commemorating the wartime destruction of Dresden and Coventry to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the bombings of Coventry. One exhibition in the Herbert Museum, also shown earlier in Dresden, is entitled “Indelible Marks,” while her new creation “75/70 […]
Dresden’s City Archive has undertaken to catalogue and digitise files of the Dresden Trust kept since its foundation in 1993. The files have been transported from England to Dresden in October for this purpose, and will henceforth be stored there. The move was decided unanimously by the Board of Trustees, and has taken place at […]
At a State Banquet in honour of Queen Elizabeth II in Berlin on 24th June 2015, German President Joachim Gauck mentioned the work of the Dresden Trust in furthering reconciliation between Britain and Dresden: “…That foes have become friends is partly thanks to Your Majesty. You experienced the terrors of the war – the bombing […]
HRH the Duke of Kent, Royal Patron of the Dresden Trust, has been honoured with the Free State of Saxony’s Order of Merit in recognition of his two decades of work for reconciliation and friendship between Britain and Dresden. Receiving the award on […]
The fire-storming of Dresden was one of the Second World War’s great tragedies. Those who were then lost in the flames cannot be brought back to life, but much of the city could be – and has been – wonderfully rebuilt. When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 and German unification followed, the Dresdeners […]
The Dresden Trust featured prominently on 12 March 2015 in the House of Lords debate on the 70th anniversary commemoration of the bombing of Dresden. The full version of the House of Lords Debate can be viewed in Hansard Column 813
7th March 2015. HRH The Duke of Kent, Royal Patron of The Dresden Trust, has donated the €10,000 which accompanied his Dresden International Peace Prize to the Trust to further its work of reconciliation between Britain and Dresden. The Duke received a standing ovation in Dresden’s Semper Opera House on 14th February when he was […]
The entire Board of the Dresden Trust including their Founder and President Dr Alan Russell and their Royal Patron HRH the Duke of Kent were present in Dresden for the 70th anniversary of the bombing. Over a period of days from […]
Dresden’s Trust’s HRH Duke of Kent to receive the International Peace Prize of Dresden City of Dresden Press Release in German at the end of this post. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the British and American bombing raids on Dresden, HRH The Duke of Kent is being awarded the “Dresden Prize” by […]
‘The Dresden Project – Indelible Marks’ is at the Kreuzkirche, Dresden, Germany until 1st March 2015. There is an public opening at 18.00 on the 12th February 2015 part of the official City of Dresden programme for the 70th commemoration of the bombing. It will take place in the presence […]
