Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Audrey Hepburn — born May 4, 1929 — was just a teenager when she first became involved in Dutch resistance against the Nazis ...
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 ...
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.
(Editor's note: This is Part I of a two-part series about Jules Weyers and his remembrances of fighting Nazi Germany during World War II as a member of the Dutch resistance movement. After the war, ...
Freddie Oversteegen — who spent her teenage years as part of the Dutch resistance, killing Nazis and helping to smuggle Jewish children out of concentration camps — died Sept. 5. She was 92 years old.
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 ...
The bravery of Walraven van Hall, who stole millions from the Nazis to help Jews and resistance fighters, has for decades remained behind a wall of silence. AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Opposite the Dutch ...
Born of wealthy fascist parents, actress Audrey Helpburn became a courier and raised funds for the Dutch Resistance in World War II. Her father was Joseph Anthony Hepburn-Ruston, a wealthy British ...
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 ...
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 ...