Audrey Hepburn — born May 4, 1929 — was just a teenager when she first became involved in Dutch resistance against the Nazis ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Selma Velleman (as she then was) departing for London in 1945: she later took British citizenship and worked as a BBC journalist ...

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 ...

Carel Jan van Oss joined the Dutch Resistance in World War II quite by chance. He only intended to help some girls he knew by making fake identity cards for them. “I was about 18, just out of school.

The official narrative of the Dutch resistance downplayed the role of the Left in the struggle against Nazism, but it also served as a barrier against the legitimation of far-right ideas. With the far ...

Grijs Verleden (Gray Past) is the title the Dutch historian Chris van der Heijden gave to his 2001 account of Holland’s morally murky landscape under Nazi occupation, and it’s the phrase director Paul ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...

A Grand Rapids family’s heroic WWII resistance story, trapped behind Nazi lines. Trapped in the Netherlands during WWII, a Grand Rapids family becomes unlikely heroes in the Dutch Resistance. Told by ...

In the final days before his execution in July 1943 at the hands of the Nazis, Willem Arondeus asked his lawyer for one last request: to spread a message after he was gone. "Let it be known," he said.

A 23-year-old Canadian sniper wearing an eye patch walked into the Dutch city of Zwolle just after midnight on April 14, 1945, armed with two submachine guns and a bag of grenades. His best friend lay ...

During the Second World War, atrocities and horrors took place all over Europe as country after country fell to the German military machine. As a result, pockets of resistance emerged throughout ...