She and her sisters struggled through the rough time of the War in the “fortress” Breslau and in January 1945 when the civilian population of the city was told to leave, the sisters Dyhrn decided to stay (as many other Silesian patriots did) and therefore risked their lives. In April 1945, the city was bombed by the Soviet army and was mainly destroyed. Alexandra Countess Dyhrn died together with her sisters on 9 April 1945 when the bomb fell on their apartment at the central Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße, only a few weeks before the War ended. Work As the member of the Association for History of Silesia Alexandra Dyhrn was frequently publishing her researches in the Schlesische Geschichtblätter. Beitrage zur Dyhrn’schen Familiengeschichte. Breslau: SG, 1922 Das Leben und Wir. (Roman) Radolfzell am Bodensee: Dreßler, 1935 Der schlesische Adel im Laufe der Zeiten. Breslau: SG, 1940 Stammtafel des Karl Eduard von Holtei. Breslau: SG, 1935 Ancestry References Sources and literature J. Harasimowicz: Adel in Schlesien I. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, München, 2009 A. Lax: Archiv für Schlesische Kirchengeschichte. 1959 Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, GA, 1940 A. Rüffler: Die Stadtbibliothek Breslau im Spiegel der Erinnerung''. Sigmaringen, 1997 1873 births 1945 deaths German genealogists German countesses German baronesses Writers from Wrocław People from the Province of Silesia German women historians Nobility from Wrocław Deaths by airstrike during World War II German civilians killed in World War II 20th-century German women writers