In 1958 she was awarded the German state decoration of Bundesverdienstkreuz which, in 2001, was then upgraded to the Commander's Cross.
[2] At the age of 22, during the Second World War, Dreydel was badly injured by a German bomb that fell on her London home.
The link encouraged students from Germany to study at Oxford during a time when relations between the countries were still strained.
[1] Along with Pamela Morris she founded the Oxford English Centre in 1953, which went on to become St Clare's College.
Later she would become the head of the American International School of Florence and then the director of the Oxford Centre for Learning Skills.