Did you know that Audrey Hepburn helped the Dutch resistance during the Holocaust?
Did you know that Audrey Hepburn helped the Dutch resistance during the Holocaust? Audrey Hepburn was born in Brussels, Belgium, on May 4, 1929. Her mother was a Dutch noblewoman and so she grew up in the Netherlands, mainly in Amsterdam. When the Nazis invaded Amsterdam, Audrey went by the name “Edda van Heemstra” as having an English sounding name was dangerous under occupation. In 1942, her uncle was executed by the Nazis and her half brother was deported to a concentration camp. Her other half brother went into hiding shortly thereafter. Audrey witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust from the outside. After the war, she said: “more than once I was at the station seeing trainloads of Jews being transported, seeing all these faces over the top of the wagon. I remember, very sharply, one little boy standing with his parents on the platform, very pale, very blond, wearing a coat that was much too big for him, and he stepped on the train. I was a child observing a child.”...
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