Stone urns of fire decorate the stair towers of the Frauenkirche. One of these urns of fire comes from the small Polish town of Gostyn. It has been given a place on stair tower C as a powerful symbol of international reconciliation work. Gostyn and Dresden are twin cities. After the Wehrmacht invasion, in October 1939 thirty residents of Gostyn were shot arbitrarily on the market square. In consequence, an armed resistance group, the “Black Legion” was formed, prepared to fight the German occupying forces. The group was betrayed and its members – most under age 20 – were brought to Dresden, where they were executed on the inner courtyard of the regional court at Münchner Platz. Three members escaped the death penalty as they were minors, and were sent to a concentration camp. After the war was over, the executed men's families visited Dresden wanting to see where their relatives had been put to death and know the site of their final resting place. Over the years, a lively dialogue developed between Dresden and Gostyn. This was managed by, among others, Marian Sobkowiak, who in April 2010 received a medal of honour from the City of Dresden for his reconciliation work. The survivors of the “Black Legion”, the victims’ descendants and the people of Dresden who have become involved have a shared vision of keeping memories alive so that the present and future will remain peaceful. When the Appeal from Dresden was launched for the reconstruction of the Frauenkirche, the people of Gostyn spontaneously collected money and commissioned the Polish sculptor Henryk Skudlarski to make an urn of fire. The “Flame of Reconciliation” was presented in Dresden in 1999.