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June 17, 2019

Audrey Hepburn, Righteous Gentile

She helped rescue Jews in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

Born in 1929 to an aristocratic Dutch mother and an English father, the famed actress Audrey Hepburn spent her childhood in Britain, Belgium, and the Netherlands. She was in the last of these when World War II began, and despite her young age, eventually became involved with the anti-Nazi resistance, as Rich Tenorio recounts:

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