Audrey Hepburn — born May 4, 1929 — was just a teenager when she first became involved in Dutch resistance against the Nazis Audrey Hepburn — born May 4, 1929 — was just a teenager when she first ...
Fashion legend Audrey Hepburn was a powerhouse of a star for the time she was physically on the Hollywood scene. As an actor, she became part of history with the stylish film, Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
GRAND RAPIDS TOWNSHIP, MI -- It wasn't the beautiful Queen Maxima who came in on the arm of Dutch King Willem-Alexander at the Meijer Gardens amphitheater today, but Dutch Resistance member Diet Eman.
Freddie Oversteegen was only 14, petite with long braids, when she became an assassin and saboteur. It was 1940, Germany had invaded the Netherlands, and she and her sister, Truus, who was two years ...
Hannie Schaft was twenty years old when she started killing Nazis. Twenty. Using her youthful good looks, she would lure German officers into dark alleys with a smile and shoot them point-blank before ...
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Shortly after her capture by the Nazis in 1944, Dutch resistance fighter Selma van de Perre was transferred from a regular prison to the worst concentration camp in the Netherlands.
Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, a World War II Dutch resistance hero better known as the Soldier of Orange, died in his sleep Wednesday at his home on the Big Island of Hawaii, his family announced. He was ...
She was 14 when she joined the Dutch resistance, though with her long, dark hair in braids she looked at least two years younger. When she rode her bicycle down the streets of Haarlem in North Holland ...
It began with a Jewish violinist named Herman, who worked with Diet Eman at a beautiful old bank in the center of The Hague. He and his family had received a summons, he told Ms. Eman one day in ...
Seeing the film Schindler's List was a pivotal moment for Rob Prince, a moment that years later has led to his own Holocaust film. "I knew a little but not a lot about the Holocaust before Schindler's ...