Most people know Audrey Hepburn as a movie star and a professional attractive person. What most people don’t know is that she lived through WWII.
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After the Nazis invaded the Netherlands, Audrey had to use the name “Edda” in order to avoid sounding English, which was dangerous. Her half-brother was sent to a Nazi labor camp. So, she began performing ballet concerts to raise money for the Dutch resistance. Her family’s entire fortune was lost during the war.
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Her traumatic experiences during WWII inspired her humanitarian efforts. She went on so many missions she was finally awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. During a mission to South Sudan she was quoted saying, “I saw one glaring truth: These are not natural disasters but man-made tragedies for which there is only one man-made solution - peace.”
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After the Nazis invaded the Netherlands, Audrey had to use the name “Edda” in order to avoid sounding English, which was dangerous. Her half-brother was sent to a Nazi labor camp. So, she began performing ballet concerts to raise money for the Dutch resistance. Her family’s entire fortune was lost during the war.
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Her traumatic experiences during WWII inspired her humanitarian efforts. She went on so many missions she was finally awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. During a mission to South Sudan she was quoted saying, “I saw one glaring truth: These are not natural disasters but man-made tragedies for which there is only one man-made solution - peace.”
