The Dambusters

raid was in 1943; they practiced on the Derwent Dam in Derbyshire near our home in Derbyshire.

In 1993 at the 50th anniversary there was a maasive remembering.  The Bamford Rector invited the churches in the Mohne Dam area to send representatives as a symbolic act of reconciliation. Since then there has been an annual exchange visit between Bamford and the Mohnesee area.

We first visited in 2003 and were very moved by the experience; the Mohne Dam, which was breached, being uncannily like our Derwent Dam

Jenny did many paintinggs.

We went again in 2008 and Jenny was invited to show some of her pictures.

The  image below is scanned from the local newspaper article about the exhibition.  Sorry about the quality, my scanner doesn’t do newspapers very well

This is the picture Jenny is holding; it’s her interpretation of Soest, the local city

Some of the English exchange group with Pastor Frank Stuckermann and Karin, director of the centre

Reconciliation

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Jenny being interviewed by the local press