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Actor and Dutch resistance activist Audrey Hepburn was born in Belgium. Her parents, a baroness and a banker, were both fascists who personally met with Hitler.
After her father abandoned them, she and her mother moved to the Netherlands, and her mother's views changed when Nazis executed her brother, Otto van Limburg Stirum, in retaliation for resistance activities.
As a child, Hepburn studied ballet, and began to perform recitals to fundraiser for the resistance. The performances were referred to as "zwarte avonden" ("black evenings") as organisers blacked out windows while they took place so they could not be observed from outside. Hepburn described how "Guards were posted outside" to warn of approaching Germans, and how audiences "made not a single sound at the end of [her] performance." And she explained that: "afterwards, money was collected and given to the Dutch Underground."
Hepburn was part of the resistance cell of Dr. Hendrik Visser’t Hooft which, according to his daughters, he proudly recalled to them. Hepburn would help deliver copies of his underground anti-fascist newspaper as a courier: "I stuffed them in my woollen socks in my wooden shoes, got on my bike and delivered them," she later recounted.
Hepburn also told the New York Daily Mirror that her activities included "running around with food" for downed Allied pilots. As an English speaker, she also relayed messages between downed British pilots and the resistance, and according to her son her family sheltered a British pilot who had been shot down. Hepburn also pointed out that many Dutch children "did their little bit to help… Many were much more courageous than I was."
More https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10460/audrey-hepburn-born
Nexus297
A beauty in any time period
whowantssome
Legend
Thorketil
"It has been a persistent misconception since Audrey came to prominence in the 1950s. Katharine was the daughter of two wealthy Connecticut Americans; Audrey the daughter of Dutch nobility. There is no meeting of family lines." https://fiveminutehistory.com/10-surprising-facts-about-audrey-hepburn/ - For many years I thought the two were related. I recently read that this was not the case.
inscrutablehorse
The most beautiful human ever, IMO.
cryborg
HelloLetsGo
Am I missing something? I only see one person. Where's Katharine?
ButImNoExpert
She was in Hollywood. They are completely unrelated people.
navagon
Absolute one of a kind.
TheRealFireFrenzy
@OP my grandma met her once while they were both in high school, they were doing an indexing of the height/weight of students and my grandma blagged the job of weighing and recording it instead of doing school work... At least that's the family legend
keyblader1985
She and Jennifer Connelly are two major inspirations for me liking full eyebrows on women. I never cared for super thin or weirdly shaped brows.
TheAnswerWasAlwaysMoreLube
Cara Delevinge
WoofBastard
For her film "Sabrina" the designer Givenchy was engaged to do costumes. He was told he would be designing for Miss Hepburn from Hollywood. Imagine his surprise when he opened the door of his atelier expecting Katherine.
WhoToldYouLifeWasFair
Brains. Beauty. Grace and Glamour,
DangleMcNubbins
Don’t forget big ass balls. Metaphorically speaking
TheGhostofElizabethShue
and Antifascism. The total package.
ljsivaCat
A face to die for. What a babe she was. ❤️
AllTheGoodOnesWereGone
What Hepburn and Audrey get up to is their own business.
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kitskinner19538
Great woman and actress. Like Dolly Parton doesn't really need to be associated with swear words!
ConfusedConda
I clicked the up arrow many times, but it would only register once. :(
mrputter
I hope you clicked it an odd number of times. (Just a silly little superstition of mine.)
MrHainey
IIRC when her town was liberated British Paras thought their house was held by German soldiers.mThey were about to attack when Audrey stuck her head out the front door & in her best English accent, asked if they would like some tea. "It's all right boys, she's one of us" the leading soldier shouted back.
Rodley
Hope it's true, but, amazing if it is.
pwnedbill
Paras you say?
Oddlane
Such an awesome pokemon
hoopsnek
She was such a legend.
Whyyeah
i remember my uncle talking shit about her having a glass eye and eating tulip bulbs during the war...next thing i know i see a slipper flying at fuckin mach 1 and nails him in the head... followed by my grandmother telling him to "shut the fuck up you son of a bitch in trying to watch My Fair Lady"
deject3000
Your grandma is awesome.
igglebotato
Glass eye? What?
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MrHainey
Absolutely not. They did well to survive when the German supply lines broke down & they left Dutch civilians to starve
MrHainey
Of course, I should have said....the German soldiers took what food they could get/steal from the hard pressed Dutch civilians.