I read once that, during the war, Ms Hepburn would cycle across enemy lines with secret messages. She'd flirt with the Germans to let her pass and return. Apparently she did it often, and she knew she'd be executed had the Germans twigged to what she was doing. She was fifteen at the time. What bravery.
Yes, she's risked her life many times. She nearly starved to death, would go on without eating for many days and then she'd find one tiny potato somewhere....She did talk about that winter. Why did she die so young? Why God couldn't save her?
And where did you read that since this author is the only one that found out Audreys history in the war as she never talked about it to anyone except her sons.
@@tamaragonzalez2227 she did talk about her life during the war, she didn't talk about her parents being Nazi sympathisers! He sons gave a lengthy interview about their mum.
Perhaps Audrey didn't talk, because she also had a war trauma. They rarely want to talk, certainly when they have survivors guilt when already Audrey went above and beyond what could be expected as a girl, showing very high morals from a young age. To go against your parent's believes is a very tough thing. My respect to Audrey and to the writer for uncovering all this.
@Anna Johansson I'd call that modern relationships. How's that low morals? If we want to discuss hypocrisy better discuss war mongers, corporations stealing natural resources and aggressive Television preachers ousted for living very double lives. Audrey didn't cheat. Helped people who were hiding in the war. Helped the world wake up to child suffering around the world.
an old attitude, usual ropedies. it works to this days. protecting another in respectively the hoax of an old hoax, of an old crime, on identity, rights, fakts, cults hiding secrets longtime hoax living by us today. if we repeating it . like all do. nobody enter in the high place without a conspiary handshake. weakness, copy plagiat devils, hoax, the same ropedies in new ages, religion, print, cultur, future false flag or silent genozid, edjucation, foster care, childmolester, justice.
Everyone, no matter race, can bear struggle. It is very important to not let it over take you. Audrey is the perfect example of using it as fuel for the rest of your life. Each child she helped was one more mission in the Resistance.
"Dutch Girl" is an excellent biography. I give it 5 stars and recommend it to anyone who is interested not just in Audrey Hepburn---- but the history of WWII. This young girl survived five years in occupied Holland, culminating in the massive and violent Battle of Arnhem. She was living in the town with her mother when the battle began, and experienced the terror and the violent death and destruction. She witnessed the Jews of Arnhem being rounded up and taken away to the death camps. She also witnessed the deaths and executions of many ordinary Dutch people in the town by the Nazis. Finally, she suffered extreme hunger and starvation in the final months of the war. She was an extraordinary person and this book really gives you the full story.
Who knows how many jewish people were saved by Audrey by dancing and rasing money to feed them?! Because is was really difficult to feed people in hiding for different reasons. Hearing the story also gives me goosebumps. My grandfather was a vegetable wholesaler in Velp. Two years ago i first heared the story of a jewish woman who used to come to him for food after dark. It was after the war that he found out that she was hiding on the other side of the street. She survived where so many didn't.
One reason it was difficult to feed people in hiding was that it was difficult to feed people not in hiding--rationing, etc. G-d bless your grandfather for feeding that woman, and G-d bless you.
Both my maternal and paternal grandparents were hiding and helping Jews during nazi invasion of Ukraine. I remember all the stories my grandmother told me and how they themselves were having little food were sharing it with Jews. They too had to hide for safety but not only from the nazis but from soviets, partisans, polish troops. Those were some hard times to be alive.
Such a riveting interview. Thank you Mr. Matzen, for your important and tireless efforts to bring Ms Hepburn’s vital story to the public. Fascism is as current of a horror worldwide, as it has ever been. War, the heroes, villains and victims are not a vague shadow of the past but real and urgent, now. Your telling Audrey’s childhood story...her bravery, empathy and suffering, may very well have far reaching effects for the spiritual evolution of humanity. That is my hope. I can not wait to read the accounts of her experience during one of the darkest points of mankind’s history, knowing that her light helped to illuminate a way out.
I met a gentleman who was a young boy in the Netherlands during the war and that the German soldiers would share their rations with the children and treated them with compassion, then he added, unless you were Jewish.
I heard a story of two soldiers (one American and one German) met while in a bar and sat down with each other to have drinks and supper together, after fighting on the battlefield against each other the day before.
I was shocked!,i am english but live in holland,I never knew she was dutch,I just found a 1950,picture of her practising ballet,Wow,she was drop dead gorgeous!,in the 1950 pic.She has the look,of a typical dutch beauty,I met a girl 20 years ago in holland when i first came to netherlands,and she looked like that.But you learn something new every day.I almost cannot believe it.!
Excellent interview - I've put a hold on my library's copy of this book as I'm a fan of Hepburn and have been aware of some of her war history for some time, although not sure where from. At the end, you mentioned Barry Paris. I haven't read his biography of Audrey's but I have read and own his biography of Louise Brooks which I found the most moving biography I've had read - up to that point. You could tell he really cared about his subject - yet was very open about all aspects of Louise's personality.
I was born in the Netherlands during the war. I grew up there and was fully aware of Audrey's background, her work during the war, etc since the fifties. Nothing new here.
Exactly. After WW2 a lot of Dutch emigrated to my Country and I was at school with the children of many. What I learned from one family who knew her was that her name was Edda.
The perfect mix of Brains, Bravery and Incredible Beauty. All combined to make her the hard working Star and Humanitarian that she was. Rest In Peace Sweet Princess.❤
I have his outstanding book about James Stewart's superlative service in the 8th Air Force during WWII. I cannot recommend it strongly enough. I'll be getting his book about Miss Hepburn shortly. Cannot wait to read this previously unknown part of history. She must have had enormous courage.
Mr. Matzen, I loved your book DUTCH GIRL, could not put it down, finished it in 4 days. I am going to read the JIMMY STEWART book next. Thanks again for a wonderful story about a wonderful actress, and humanitarian.
It's not entirely true that Audrey never talked about the war in public. She didn't talk about her parents' Nazi connection, true, but she DID mention the hardships, the hunger, and working for the resistance in many interviews. And in her screen test for Roman Holiday, just after she sits down, and with the camera rolling, the interviewer says, "Tell us about the war." The combination of sweetness and vulnerability in her face as she answers tells you all you need to know about why she became a star that we'll never forget. Here it is: ua-cam.com/video/Lo1Tkjw-ots/v-deo.html&ab_channel=HansvandenBerg
its a shame they stole her,she was on the US donahue show aged 60,and she looked like,she is between 35/40,3 years later,after cancer,she was stolen from us aged 63,They dont make them like that anymore,Thats why from 41 years old i quit the rat race,because i cannot get what i want,A girl like audrey,I think i am in the wrong time,and place.nothing makes sense anymore.I will live the rest of my life alone.I hope to meet audrey one day.somewhere over the rainbow.And I believe its possible,I can meet audrey one day.
A girl whose parents were NSB members during the war Who, like many NSB members, flee to America after the war That is why she is not known at all in the Netherlands
Audrey Hepburn would come across as this fragile anemic girl, but she was tougher than Tungsten Steel, who gives a damn who her parents were political wise, The real Audrey Hepburn was Sister Luke in the "Nun's Story"
So malnourished during the Nazi occupation of Holland that her tween-teenaged body suffered and the rigors of Ballet were just too much for her. However, ballet's loss was the movie industries gain.
Tough love. I all my adult life so far I've carried this unknown guilt from my mother not ever understanding why I asked her so many times.....now I understand now her rejection was for my protection. I get it now.
Holland had it tough during WW 2 ! This caused a lot of people stress and that stress can cause sickness ‼️ mIt was a great day when the Canadians came to Liberate us
The greatest generation doesn't need attention or kudos. They're not from the social media generation. They just get to work and do what needs to be done. I think she didn't want or need the attention of talking about it.
British is not the same as English! One can become British by applying for British citizenship but one has to be born in the UK to be English. You should know that.
You are right about the first bit. Anyone can become British in the same way anyone can become American. English though is an ethnicity and so it's s not something you can become, no matter where in the world you were born.
Oh, yes of course Audrey Hepburn was Dutch through the divorce of her parents, her British father and her Dutch mother. She also grew up in Arnheim were her grandparents lived. Her Dutch grandfather had even been one a Mayor of Armheim. It is the same place Rayan had described in A BRIDGE TO FAR. After the War she had rejected the role of the Children´s Nurse in the movie because the role itself felt to traumatic to her. I got my information about what the author told mostly from German magazins and Newspapers.
4:08 " AND THEN THEY WENT TO FRANCE " - The good man had forgotten about Belgium. They also gave a German troops " a hot welcome " and many Belgiums were also in the Resistance. But basically it was a well known fact, at least in Europe, that Audrey Hepburns parents had been Nazi Sympathisers Just in the States not. I guess the public relation departments and lobbyists of the Movie-Industry looked out for surpressing the press on this point. British and American authors tend to ignore sources in other languages as their own to often. 13:33 But naturally she would not talk about her parents and her childhood herself. if an actor/actress/author did such a thing himself comming out as a former Nazi or Nazi Sympathiser that was a professional suicide up almost untill today. For example the actor Gert Fröbe had experienced this by confessing he had voted for the Nazi Party before War Time. He had to stand through the brunt of the public distrust and some law suits against magazines and newspapers overacting in this matter. He had mentioned this in his authobiography.
Interesting, but Audrey did talk about WW2. Sad, complex and elusive times of course on all sides. People could find themselves on the wrong side in retroperspective. The winner wasn't yet decided. Moreover, subscription meant that many young boys found themselves in a situation they never wanted. From my Dutch side (mum) grandmother, I've often heard the story that German soldiers were actually very respectful, kind and sharing, certainly at the beginning of the occupation of The Netherlands. Grandmum (Dutch) was mandated to house a few regular wehrmacht soldiers since she had a large villa, and they had quite some talks. She told that they didn't like what they were doing, but they had to because of Hitler, the boys said. There was no choice to be had. Unfortunately, antisemitism was a general norm at the time everywhere throughout Europe and Russia. Jews were just diminitively tolerated (but usually distrusted) in Amsterdam for example. I remember a friend of my grandmum (both Dutch) talking about it since her friend lived there during the times. From my paternal German side I've heard some stories too, although usually deeply ashamed. Most Germans at the time after WW2 wouldn't talk. From my position, my generation, I understand that most boys had no choice. Active followers of the regime is a different story of course; there were plenty of them as well. Propaganda is extremely effective (still is), and antisemitism was the general norm before WW2. The regime sadly made it the highest and most devastating agenda ever in history.... :( Now, if Audrey's father was an agent, then her family must have moved to the low countries for his covert work, obviously; of course Audrey would have been told for another reason. There would have been no other reason to move, since the family was well good financially in England. Sad, complex and elusive times... Must have been especially hard for Audrey...
Seems strange if the parents were so well connected with the nazis that Audrey would have had so much difficulty obtaining adequate food. Something doesn't add up
@@lray1948 My two cents. Just because the parents were working for the Nazis doesn’t mean the Nazis felt an obligation to feed them. Germany was facing starvation also.
I had no idea Audrey Hepburn was European. I had always read about the conditions in Holland during WW II with Anne Frank and Corrie Ten Boom. I had always assumed Hepburn was originally American.
@@Cheeseatingjunglista Mon ami...let's talk. Audrey Hepburn passed away in 1993. There's a generation born and grown to adulthood since then. It's not as though she's even one of the currently popular celebrities. I, a Baby Boomer, who grew up watching her movies when they were first run, wasn't aware of her sojourn in the Netherlands until I was middle aged. Everyone should ideally make a conscientious effort to learn beyond their immediate cultural bubble. But the media system has an undeniable bearing on what people are routinely exposed to. Is it common knowledge where you reside that Otto Frank asked her to try out for the part of his daughter in the movie treatment? Like the program informs the viewer? Or that she declined his request, because the story was too close and personal to her own wartime ordeal? Might you be familiar with Corrie ten Boom? If you are, kudos to you. It puts you / us in a select demographics. She, her father and sister were clockmakers in Haarlem, Holland. Their home was a hiding place for Jews being smuggled to safety. Hence the name of the book and movie that made her famous in the 1970's. As with the Frank family, they were ratted out to the authorities, arrested, and sent to the prison camp, where all but a few died. She's not so famous since then. Like Audrey Hepburn, she too has passed away. To assume what should be common knowledge and what constitutes self absorption is both a statistical crapshoot and unwarranted.
there is something to be said for this .. what right does an adult have imposing war which will make children suffer. Imagine waking up in the morning and being bombarded or having foreign soldiers in uniform marauding through your streets.
Kleine Richtigstellung des Angemerkten: Die Richtung der Lautverschiebung ist andersherum, vom Niederdeutschen oder Niederfränischen zum Mittel- und Oberdeutschen
In 2015 I gave a talk at the National Portrait Gallery in London which pre-empts these revelations and also goes much deeper. The talk was on Audrey Hepburn and the talk alleged her parents were members of Britain`s notorious National Union of Fascists. The mother was a Dutch Jewish baroness and the father was a Czech Irish con man who went to school in Linz Austria with Hitler. There is speculation during the war that Hepburn`s parents were collaborators and turned in many Jewish families; also that they hosted Nazis at their parties; and that their own daughter was abused. The revelations were so distasteful to some (Holocaust Deniers) I was vilified before NPG management and was never asked back to do another talk. The ostensible reason was (and it is on the Southwark Meetup Website) that I failed to acknowledge `Sabrina` as the LATIN name for `Severn`. If you want to access the talk, have a look at Academia.edu (Audrey Hepburn/Sandra Shevey) So effectivley you could call her `Hitler`s goddaughter`. WHat an ugly thought?!
Hello Ms. Shevey, I've tried to download it, but only the slides (i.e., images) seem to be included. Does the extended .pdf package include the text of the discussion?
Her great grandfather was Irish and her great grandmother was she Barbara Austrian with German ancestry. She wasn’t British at all lol she was Irish however in the 1950’s no blacks no Irish no dogs in England.
I'd like the title if she wasn't born in Brussels. I'd also like it if it wasn't a source of shame for her, and he's trying to make a buck off a dead lady.
When she speaks dutch it is a dutch accent not a belgian one. Her mother as well as her husband where dutch. She also felt close to Anne Frank. So that is where her roots are. Also she had british passport when she spend first five years of her life in Belgium. So it is rather complicated.
Ein sehr interessantes Video mit vielen aufschlussreichen Informationen. Allerdings war die Dialektkarte doch arg vereinfacht. Kólsch ist z. B. ein Unterdialekt des Rheinfränkischen oder auch Ripuarischen. Interessant ist dabei, dass es ein Dialektkontinuum gibt bis ins Niederländische und die flämischen Dialekte. Niederländisch zählt man dabei zum Niederfränkischen, das Fränkich in dem Namen steckt ist kein Zufall. Ein anderes Dialektkontinuum führt ins Niederdeutsche, Platt oder auch Niedersächsische, das auch im Osten der Niederlande gesprochen wird. Friesisch ist in den Niederlanden als Westfriesisch noch präsent, in Deutschland aber fast ausgestorben. Mir fehlte es einwenig an diesen und anderen Differenzierungen. über die des oberdeutschen Sprachraums weiss ich weniger Bescheid. Da lasse ich mich gerne noch genauer aufklären.
The crimes and cruelties committed against my sons and daughters, my fathers and mothers, my brothers and sisters hurt me deeply, regardless their ethnicity and nationality. In Isaiah 2: 4, Jehovah God, the Creator and Source of life, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, promises: "He will be judge among the nations and will settle matters in relation to many peoples. They will turn their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. The nations will no longer raise their swords against each other and learn no more to wage war." My immediate neighbors are Jews and I am a Jehovah's Witness. Their hearts are superior than pure gold by far. They are extremely kind. The gentleman takes care of my trash can every Wednesday without my asking him to do so. They are lovely human beings, and they are not in need of the smallest improvement.
If you liked the comment above, you are going to love this one: First-Promise recorded in Psalm 37: 9-12 says: "For the wicked will be eliminated, but those who put their hope in Jehovah will inherit the earth. Just a little while longer, and the wicked will no longer exist; you will look where they were, and they will no longer be there. But the meek will inherit the earth and fully enjoy of abundant peace." Second-Promise recorded in Isaiah 25: 8 says: "He will remove death forever, and the Sovereign Lord Jehovah will wipe the tears from all faces. He will remove from all the earth the disgrace of his people, for Jehovah himself has spoken." Have a blessed day!
@Anna Johansson I know that Jehovah God, the Father of our lord Jesus Christ, is going to remove all evildoer from the face of the earth. First-Promise recorded in Psalm 37: 9-12 says: "For the wicked will be eliminated, but those who put their hope in Jehovah will inherit the earth. Just a little while longer, and the wicked will no longer exist; you will look where they were, and they will no longer be there. But the meek will inherit the earth and fully enjoy of abundant peace." Second-Promise recorded in Isaiah 25: 8 says: "He will remove death forever, and the Sovereign Lord Jehovah will wipe the tears from all faces. He will remove from all the earth the disgrace of his people, for Jehovah himself has spoken."
@Anna Johansson Ms. Johanson: We are all equal. We all are descendants of Adam and Eve, based on Acts 17:26: "And He (Jehovah God) made out of one man every nation of men (humanity) to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and He decreed the appointed times and the set limits of where men would dwell..."
If you liked the previous comment, you are going to love this one: First-Promise recorded in Psalm 37: 9-12 says: "For the wicked will be eliminated, but those who put their hope in Jehovah will inherit the earth. Just a little while longer, and the wicked will no longer exist; you will look where they were, and they will no longer be there. But the meek will inherit the earth and fully enjoy of abundant peace." Second-Promise recorded in Isaiah 25: 8 says: "He will remove death forever, and the Sovereign Lord Jehovah will wipe the tears from all faces. He will remove from all the earth the disgrace of his people, for Jehovah himself has spoken."
I hear you I tried reporting this form of denigration and UA-cam threw me off lol. They had holocaust deniers who were doing this for years. Shows u something about utube
Thank you so much for sharing with me an infamous fragment of the Hitler's Nazi horrendous regimen. It must be an odyssey to recount. The crimes and cruelties committed against my sons and daughters, my fathers and mothers, my brothers and sisters hurt me deeply, regardless their ethnicity and nationality. In Isaiah 2: 4, Jehovah God, the Creator and Source of life, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, promises: "He will be judge among the nations and will settle matters in relation to many peoples. They will turn their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. The nations will no longer raise their swords against each other and learn no more to wage war." My immediate neighbors are Jews and I am a Jehovah's Witness. Their hearts are superior than pure gold by far. They are extremely kind. The gentleman takes care of my trash can every Wednesday without my asking him to do so. They are lovely human beings, and they are not in need of the smallest improvement.
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Between 1933 and 1939, before the war started a lot of people around the world were impressed with Hitler, prime ministers, kings and ordinary people too, there was no shame to have about that.
@@janteekens4678 Very poor comparison, Hitler and his crew took a country on the verge of total collapse and turned it onto the most prosperous in about three years, they clearly improved the lives of their people, that's why most Germans loved him so much, they were starving, he fed them, no magic there. Now, let's see what Trump did for his people...
I read once that, during the war, Ms Hepburn would cycle across enemy lines with secret messages. She'd flirt with the Germans to let her pass and return. Apparently she did it often, and she knew she'd be executed had the Germans twigged to what she was doing. She was fifteen at the time. What bravery.
Holy crap!
Yes, she's risked her life many times. She nearly starved to death, would go on without eating for many days and then she'd find one tiny potato somewhere....She did talk about that winter.
Why did she die so young? Why God couldn't save her?
And where did you read that since this author is the only one that found out Audreys history in the war as she never talked about it to anyone except her sons.
@@tamaragonzalez2227 she did talk about her life during the war, she didn't talk about her parents being Nazi sympathisers! He sons gave a lengthy interview about their mum.
@@E-Kat I suggest you watch again and listen this time as you are really way off what is told here.
Perhaps Audrey didn't talk, because she also had a war trauma. They rarely want to talk, certainly when they have survivors guilt when already Audrey went above and beyond what could be expected as a girl, showing very high morals from a young age. To go against your parent's believes is a very tough thing. My respect to Audrey and to the writer for uncovering all this.
Absolutely. Also, who could she talk to who would really understand. Very few. In that case it’s best to keep it to oneself
@Anna Johansson I'd call that modern relationships. How's that low morals? If we want to discuss hypocrisy better discuss war mongers, corporations stealing natural resources and aggressive Television preachers ousted for living very double lives. Audrey didn't cheat. Helped people who were hiding in the war. Helped the world wake up to child suffering around the world.
My dad was a dutch boy in that war/he was traumatized!
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This is a good interview, the right questions. I got another perspective of Audrey, a positive one. Thank you.
I always felt she not just a beautiful puppet. I was always fascinated by her. I could not explain why. Now I know why.
The interviewer is impeccable. It sounds like a conversation of two friends catching up
an old attitude, usual ropedies. it works to this days. protecting another in respectively the hoax of an old hoax, of an old crime, on identity, rights, fakts, cults hiding secrets longtime hoax living by us today. if we repeating it .
like all do.
nobody enter in the high place without a conspiary handshake.
weakness, copy plagiat devils, hoax, the same ropedies in new ages, religion, print, cultur, future false flag or silent genozid, edjucation, foster care, childmolester, justice.
Everyone, no matter race, can bear struggle. It is very important to not let it over take you. Audrey is the perfect example of using it as fuel for the rest of your life. Each child she helped was one more mission in the Resistance.
Well said🏴☠️🌠💓
Thank you for sharing such an incredible story
Lovely story. Thank you for all your work and research.
fascinating interview. many thanks for posting.
"Dutch Girl" is an excellent biography. I give it 5 stars and recommend it to anyone who is interested not just in Audrey Hepburn---- but the history of WWII. This young girl survived five years in occupied Holland, culminating in the massive and violent Battle of Arnhem. She was living in the town with her mother when the battle began, and experienced the terror and the violent death and destruction. She witnessed the Jews of Arnhem being rounded up and taken away to the death camps. She also witnessed the deaths and executions of many ordinary Dutch people in the town by the Nazis. Finally, she suffered extreme hunger and starvation in the final months of the war. She was an extraordinary person and this book really gives you the full story.
a prime example of a person whose life was damaged for good by that war..
Ms Hepburn has always been an icon of generosity, commitment,courage,elegance,sensibility and beauty.I love her movies as much as her deeds.
Thank you for this beautiful summary of this remarkable heroic woman.
Who knows how many jewish people were saved by Audrey by dancing and rasing money to feed them?!
Because is was really difficult to feed people in hiding for different reasons. Hearing the story also gives me goosebumps. My grandfather was a vegetable wholesaler in Velp. Two years ago i first heared the story of a jewish woman who used to come to him for food after dark. It was after the war that he found out that she was hiding on the other side of the street. She survived where so many didn't.
One reason it was difficult to feed people in hiding was that it was difficult to feed people not in hiding--rationing, etc. G-d bless your grandfather for feeding that woman, and G-d bless you.
@@robertlevine2827 🙏 thanks
He’s a saint. You come from a good family
I feel honoured for having read your Grandfather's story. Thank you.
Both my maternal and paternal grandparents were hiding and helping Jews during nazi invasion of Ukraine. I remember all the stories my grandmother told me and how they themselves were having little food were sharing it with Jews. They too had to hide for safety but not only from the nazis but from soviets, partisans, polish troops. Those were some hard times to be alive.
Such a riveting interview. Thank you Mr. Matzen, for your important and tireless efforts to bring Ms Hepburn’s vital story to the public. Fascism is as current of a horror worldwide, as it has ever been. War, the heroes, villains and victims are not a vague shadow of the past but real and urgent, now. Your telling Audrey’s childhood story...her bravery, empathy and suffering, may very well have far reaching effects for the spiritual evolution of humanity. That is my hope. I can not wait to read the accounts of her experience during one of the darkest points of mankind’s history, knowing that her light helped to illuminate a way out.
Mr. Matzen should voice for the audiobook version of the book. What a great insight and way to tell the story. Can't wait to read
This is a great book got it recently, and am about half through it. His book about jimmy stewart was also very good.
exceptional researcher
I met a gentleman who was a young boy in the Netherlands during the war and that the German soldiers would share their rations with the children and treated them with compassion, then he added, unless you were Jewish.
Shows what hate does, it made this man very ugly
I heard a story of two soldiers (one American and one German) met while in a bar and sat down with each other to have drinks and supper together, after fighting on the battlefield against each other the day before.
Seldom happened, lived there.
@@mimimccreary8072 Just repeating what he told me.
Right, " unless you were a Jew " - like Anne Frank.( compare the Diary of Anne Frank and the books about her. I had read the Diary at school )
I was shocked!,i am english but live in holland,I never knew she was dutch,I just found a 1950,picture of her practising ballet,Wow,she was drop dead gorgeous!,in the 1950 pic.She has the look,of a typical dutch beauty,I met a girl 20 years ago in holland when i first came to netherlands,and she looked like that.But you learn something new every day.I almost cannot believe it.!
Excellent interview - I've put a hold on my library's copy of this book as I'm a fan of Hepburn and have been aware of some of her war history for some time, although not sure where from.
At the end, you mentioned Barry Paris. I haven't read his biography of Audrey's but I have read and own his biography of Louise Brooks which I found the most moving biography I've had read - up to that point. You could tell he really cared about his subject - yet was very open about all aspects of Louise's personality.
A great interview. Thank you and God bless.
Jennifer Love Hewitt portrayed the actress in the movie The Audrey Hepburn Story. I think she did wonderfully.
I was born in the Netherlands during the war. I grew up there and was fully aware of Audrey's background, her work during the war, etc since the fifties. Nothing new here.
Exactly. After WW2 a lot of Dutch emigrated to my Country and I was at school with the children of many. What I learned from one family who knew her was that her name was Edda.
The perfect mix of Brains, Bravery and Incredible Beauty. All combined to make her the hard working Star and Humanitarian that she was.
Rest In Peace Sweet Princess.❤
She had a great grandfather who was Irish who married a German wife in Austria.
She was a real human being!❤️
I have his outstanding book about James Stewart's superlative service in the 8th Air Force during WWII. I cannot recommend it strongly enough. I'll be getting his book about Miss Hepburn shortly. Cannot wait to read this previously unknown part of history. She must have had enormous courage.
This story is amazing of Audrey Hepburn and this more accurate version of Audrey's life.
Excellent interview.
I read the book. It was fabulous.
Mr. Matzen, I loved your book DUTCH GIRL, could not put it down, finished it in 4 days. I am going to read the JIMMY STEWART book next. Thanks again for a wonderful story about a wonderful actress, and humanitarian.
I just picked it up last week. It is good so far
Hes coming out with a new one about audrey. It's called warrior.
Humaneness is a kind of love.
Beautiful but difficult biography Mrs Audrey Hepburn
Beautiful person
@Anna Johansson Just giving her name was surely useful, at least she did something.
Can’t wait to read it!
It's not entirely true that Audrey never talked about the war in public. She didn't talk about her parents' Nazi connection, true, but she DID mention the hardships, the hunger, and working for the resistance in many interviews. And in her screen test for Roman Holiday, just after she sits down, and with the camera rolling, the interviewer says, "Tell us about the war." The combination of sweetness and vulnerability in her face as she answers tells you all you need to know about why she became a star that we'll never forget. Here it is: ua-cam.com/video/Lo1Tkjw-ots/v-deo.html&ab_channel=HansvandenBerg
Absolutely. She did talk about the war in many interviews.
A truly fenominal woman! Bless her beautiful soul.
its a shame they stole her,she was on the US donahue show aged 60,and she looked like,she is between 35/40,3 years later,after cancer,she was stolen from us aged 63,They dont make them like that anymore,Thats why from 41 years old i quit the rat race,because i cannot get what i want,A girl like audrey,I think i am in the wrong time,and place.nothing makes sense anymore.I will live the rest of my life alone.I hope to meet audrey one day.somewhere over the rainbow.And I believe its possible,I can meet audrey one day.
Read the book. It's tells so much more than this...she really was extraordinary
this book needs to be made into a movie
No, dont insult her you primitive fool
THIS GREATLY HELPS TO UNDERSTAND HER ALTRUISM AND COURAGE. VICTOR FRANKL HAS MUCH TO SAY ABOUT "SELF-CONSTITUTION" THROUGH TRUTH AND ETHICS, MORALITY.
This is a biography, just waiting to be a movie, presenting many variables and emotions.
Audrey Hepburn also rejected the film role to play Kate ter Horst in the movie "A bridge too far", played by Liv Ullmann.
Even if her parents were Nazi sympathisers, she was not. A brave and lovely woman with humanity and compassion. So sad that she is no longer with us.
I admire her so much she is a wonderful icon on the world 🥰❤️
just finished on Audible, excellent book
This would be a great movie!
A girl whose parents were NSB members during the war
Who, like many NSB members, flee to America after the war
That is why she is not known at all in the Netherlands
Audrey Hepburn would come across as this fragile anemic girl, but she was tougher than Tungsten Steel, who gives a damn who her parents were political wise, The real Audrey Hepburn was Sister Luke in the "Nun's Story"
So malnourished during the Nazi occupation of Holland that her tween-teenaged body suffered and the rigors of Ballet were just too much for her. However, ballet's loss was the movie industries gain.
Leslie Caron also physically affected by WWII.
Tough love. I all my adult life so far I've carried this unknown guilt from my mother not ever understanding why I asked her so many times.....now I understand now her rejection was for my protection. I get it now.
Holland had it tough during WW 2 ! This caused a lot of people stress and that stress can cause sickness ‼️ mIt was a great day when the Canadians came to Liberate us
The greatest generation doesn't need attention or kudos. They're not from the social media generation. They just get to work and do what needs to be done. I think she didn't want or need the attention of talking about it.
I am reading this book right now.
This seems to be a man who has been very dedicated to telling Audrey s
great.
British is not the same as English!
One can become British by applying for British citizenship but one has to be born in the UK to be English.
You should know that.
You are right about the first bit. Anyone can become British in the same way anyone can become American.
English though is an ethnicity and so it's s not something you can become, no matter where in the world you were born.
I didn't know about her Nazi sympathiser mother and Nazi agent father! Poor, poor woman! She gave back for their sins hundred fold.
Audrey...you legend.
The Image of Audrey changes a lot.
I don't think food killed her- smoking is a more likely culprit.
Oh, yes of course Audrey Hepburn was Dutch through the divorce of her parents, her British father and her Dutch mother. She also grew up in Arnheim were her grandparents lived. Her Dutch grandfather had even been one a Mayor of Armheim. It is the same place Rayan had described in A BRIDGE TO FAR.
After the War she had rejected the role of the Children´s Nurse in the movie because the role itself felt to traumatic to her.
I got my information about what the author told mostly from German magazins and Newspapers.
4:08 " AND THEN THEY WENT TO FRANCE " - The good man had forgotten about Belgium. They also gave a German troops " a hot welcome " and many Belgiums were also in the Resistance.
But basically it was a well known fact, at least in Europe, that Audrey Hepburns parents had been Nazi Sympathisers Just in the States not. I guess the public relation departments and lobbyists of the Movie-Industry looked out for surpressing the press on this point.
British and American authors tend to ignore sources in other languages as their own to often.
13:33 But naturally she would not talk about her parents and her childhood herself. if an actor/actress/author did such a thing himself comming out as a former Nazi or Nazi Sympathiser that was a professional suicide up almost untill today.
For example the actor Gert Fröbe had experienced this by confessing he had voted for the Nazi Party before War Time. He had to stand through the brunt of the public distrust and some law suits against magazines and newspapers overacting in this matter. He had mentioned this in his authobiography.
Once a ballerina, always a ballerina.
Dear Audrey...❤
So judging someone on the sins of their parents is wrong for celebrities but anyone else is cancelled..🤔
Way to miss the point.
How?
I neeeeed this book!
I can see that she was an actual "Earth Angel" 😇
Interesting, but Audrey did talk about WW2. Sad, complex and elusive times of course on all sides. People could find themselves on the wrong side in retroperspective. The winner wasn't yet decided. Moreover, subscription meant that many young boys found themselves in a situation they never wanted. From my Dutch side (mum) grandmother, I've often heard the story that German soldiers were actually very respectful, kind and sharing, certainly at the beginning of the occupation of The Netherlands.
Grandmum (Dutch) was mandated to house a few regular wehrmacht soldiers since she had a large villa, and they had quite some talks. She told that they didn't like what they were doing, but they had to because of Hitler, the boys said. There was no choice to be had.
Unfortunately, antisemitism was a general norm at the time everywhere throughout Europe and Russia. Jews were just diminitively tolerated (but usually distrusted) in Amsterdam for example. I remember a friend of my grandmum (both Dutch) talking about it since her friend lived there during the times.
From my paternal German side I've heard some stories too, although usually deeply ashamed. Most Germans at the time after WW2 wouldn't talk. From my position, my generation, I understand that most boys had no choice. Active followers of the regime is a different story of course; there were plenty of them as well. Propaganda is extremely effective (still is), and antisemitism was the general norm before WW2. The regime sadly made it the highest and most devastating agenda ever in history.... :(
Now, if Audrey's father was an agent, then her family must have moved to the low countries for his covert work, obviously; of course Audrey would have been told for another reason. There would have been no other reason to move, since the family was well good financially in England.
Sad, complex and elusive times... Must have been especially hard for Audrey...
Seems strange if the parents were so well connected with the nazis that Audrey would have had so much difficulty obtaining adequate food. Something doesn't add up
@@lray1948 My two cents. Just because the parents were working for the Nazis doesn’t mean the Nazis felt an obligation to feed them. Germany was facing starvation also.
I had no idea Audrey Hepburn was European. I had always read about the conditions in Holland during WW II with Anne Frank and Corrie Ten Boom. I had always assumed Hepburn was originally American.
Corrie ten Boom and her family, and their story, are worthy additions to the list of those who endured and resisted and suffered.
Christ you Yanks are utterly self obsessed
Why assume this person is American? Somebody's got issues....
@@Cheeseatingjunglista
Mon ami...let's talk.
Audrey Hepburn passed away in 1993. There's a generation born and grown to adulthood since then. It's not as though she's even one of the currently popular celebrities. I, a Baby Boomer, who grew up watching her movies when they were first run, wasn't aware of her sojourn in the Netherlands until I was middle aged.
Everyone should ideally make a conscientious effort to learn beyond their immediate cultural bubble. But the media system has an undeniable bearing on what people are routinely exposed to.
Is it common knowledge where you reside that Otto Frank asked her to try out for the part of his daughter in the movie treatment? Like the program informs the viewer? Or that she declined his request, because the story was too close and personal to her own wartime ordeal?
Might you be familiar with Corrie ten Boom? If you are, kudos to you. It puts you / us in a select demographics. She, her father and sister were clockmakers in Haarlem, Holland. Their home was a hiding place for Jews being smuggled to safety. Hence the name of the book and movie that made her famous in the 1970's.
As with the Frank family, they were ratted out to the authorities, arrested, and sent to the prison camp, where all but a few died. She's not so famous since then. Like Audrey Hepburn, she too has passed away.
To assume what should be common knowledge and what constitutes self absorption is both a statistical crapshoot and unwarranted.
@@wrybreadspread Oh my, you are one of the clever ones eh? Providing excuses for the insularity of your country rather proves my point
Can't blame anyone for the sins of the parents .
This is a good book.
there is something to be said for this .. what right does an adult have imposing war which will make children suffer. Imagine waking up in the morning and being bombarded or having foreign soldiers in uniform marauding through your streets.
God bless you Audrey 🙏❤🙌 !
Wow... Beautiful
Probably kept her safe w/mom doing her thing. There is always a back story. Ya never know...
Kleine Richtigstellung des Angemerkten: Die Richtung der Lautverschiebung ist andersherum, vom Niederdeutschen oder Niederfränischen zum Mittel- und Oberdeutschen
Obviously she is half British half Dutch.
God bless you because yes...😊
Audrey Hepburn was a British citizen she was not Dutch.
Good on ya Audrey ,,, cheers
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Oh No,loud unnecessary intrusive music spoiling a fine video!
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In 2015 I gave a talk at the National Portrait Gallery in London which pre-empts these revelations and also goes much deeper. The talk was on Audrey Hepburn and the talk alleged her parents were members of Britain`s notorious National Union of Fascists. The mother was a Dutch Jewish baroness and the father was a Czech Irish con man who went to school in Linz Austria with Hitler. There is speculation during the war that Hepburn`s parents were collaborators and turned in many Jewish families; also that they hosted Nazis at their parties; and that their own daughter was abused. The revelations were so distasteful to some (Holocaust Deniers) I was vilified before NPG management and was never asked back to do another talk. The ostensible reason was (and it is on the Southwark Meetup Website) that I failed to acknowledge `Sabrina` as the LATIN name for `Severn`. If you want to access the talk, have a look at Academia.edu (Audrey Hepburn/Sandra Shevey) So effectivley you could call her `Hitler`s goddaughter`. WHat an ugly thought?!
Hello Ms. Shevey, I've tried to download it, but only the slides (i.e., images) seem to be included. Does the extended .pdf package include the text of the discussion?
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Her great grandfather was Irish and her great grandmother was she Barbara Austrian with German ancestry. She wasn’t British at all lol she was Irish however in the 1950’s no blacks no Irish no dogs in England.
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Why did the guest not use the name ANN FRANK , Instead he said Uhaane Fruenc . Does he have a speech impediment .
He's pronouncing her name correctly in Dutch. Still a bit of accent of course, but it's pretty close.
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My hero
I'd like the title if she wasn't born in Brussels. I'd also like it if it wasn't a source of shame for her, and he's trying to make a buck off a dead lady.
She was just born there because her parents were living there..she was Dutch and British
When she speaks dutch it is a dutch accent not a belgian one. Her mother as well as her husband where dutch. She also felt close to Anne Frank. So that is where her roots are. Also she had british passport when she spend first five years of her life in Belgium. So it is rather complicated.
The low lands is not more countries, it is just the Netherlands.
BELGIUM is also Low country
Ein sehr interessantes Video mit vielen aufschlussreichen Informationen. Allerdings war die Dialektkarte doch arg vereinfacht. Kólsch ist z. B. ein Unterdialekt des Rheinfränkischen oder auch Ripuarischen. Interessant ist dabei, dass es ein Dialektkontinuum gibt bis ins Niederländische und die flämischen Dialekte. Niederländisch zählt man dabei zum Niederfränkischen, das Fränkich in dem Namen steckt ist kein Zufall. Ein anderes Dialektkontinuum führt ins Niederdeutsche, Platt oder auch Niedersächsische, das auch im Osten der Niederlande gesprochen wird. Friesisch ist in den Niederlanden als Westfriesisch noch präsent, in Deutschland aber fast ausgestorben. Mir fehlte es einwenig an diesen und anderen Differenzierungen. über die des oberdeutschen Sprachraums weiss ich weniger Bescheid. Da lasse ich mich gerne noch genauer aufklären.
Humble servant how marvelous😅
The crimes and cruelties committed against my sons and daughters, my fathers and mothers, my brothers and sisters hurt me deeply, regardless their ethnicity and nationality.
In Isaiah 2: 4, Jehovah God, the Creator and Source of life, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, promises:
"He will be judge among the nations and will settle matters in relation to many peoples. They will turn their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. The nations will no longer raise their swords against each other and learn no more to wage war."
My immediate neighbors are Jews and I am a Jehovah's Witness.
Their hearts are superior than pure gold by far. They are extremely kind.
The gentleman takes care of my trash can every Wednesday without my asking him to do so. They are lovely human beings, and they are not in need of the smallest improvement.
If you liked the comment above, you are going to love this one:
First-Promise recorded in Psalm 37: 9-12 says: "For the wicked will be eliminated, but those who put their hope in Jehovah will inherit the earth. Just a little while longer, and the wicked will no longer exist; you will look where they were, and they will no longer be there. But the meek will inherit the earth and fully enjoy of abundant peace."
Second-Promise recorded in Isaiah 25: 8 says: "He will remove death forever, and the Sovereign Lord Jehovah will wipe the tears from all faces. He will remove from all the earth the disgrace of his people, for Jehovah himself has spoken."
Have a blessed day!
@Anna Johansson You are a perfect example of a peacemaker! My Jehovah bless you.
@Anna Johansson
I know that Jehovah God, the Father of our lord Jesus Christ, is going to remove all evildoer from the face of the earth.
First-Promise recorded in Psalm 37: 9-12 says:
"For the wicked will be eliminated, but those who put their hope in Jehovah will inherit the earth. Just a little while longer, and the wicked will no longer exist; you will look where they were, and they will no longer be there. But the meek will inherit the earth and fully enjoy of abundant peace."
Second-Promise recorded in Isaiah 25: 8 says:
"He will remove death forever, and the Sovereign Lord Jehovah will wipe the tears from all faces. He will remove from all the earth the disgrace of his people, for Jehovah himself has spoken."
@Anna Johansson
Ms. Johanson:
We are all equal. We all are descendants of Adam and Eve, based on Acts 17:26:
"And He (Jehovah God) made out of one man every nation of men (humanity) to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and He decreed the appointed times and the set limits of where men would dwell..."
If you liked the previous comment, you are going to love this one:
First-Promise recorded in Psalm 37: 9-12 says:
"For the wicked will be eliminated, but those who put their hope in Jehovah will inherit the earth. Just a little while longer, and the wicked will no longer exist; you will look where they were, and they will no longer be there. But the meek will inherit the earth and fully enjoy of abundant peace."
Second-Promise recorded in Isaiah 25: 8 says:
"He will remove death forever, and the Sovereign Lord Jehovah will wipe the tears from all faces. He will remove from all the earth the disgrace of his people, for Jehovah himself has spoken."
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Such light hearted banter for describing the Holocaust. I turned it off.
We must've watched different videos.
It's just a book to him. He doesn't seem touched by the human suffering of the story.
@@rabbit_scribe we sure did....but then listening is not as easy as it seems....
I cried
I hear you I tried reporting this form of denigration and UA-cam threw me off lol. They had holocaust deniers who were doing this for years. Shows u something about utube
Natalie Portman the first.
Thank you so much for sharing with me an infamous fragment of the Hitler's Nazi horrendous regimen.
It must be an odyssey to recount.
The crimes and cruelties committed against my sons and daughters, my fathers and mothers, my brothers and sisters hurt me deeply, regardless their ethnicity and nationality.
In Isaiah 2: 4, Jehovah God, the Creator and Source of life, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, promises:
"He will be judge among the nations and will settle matters in relation to many peoples. They will turn their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. The nations will no longer raise their swords against each other and learn no more to wage war."
My immediate neighbors are Jews and I am a Jehovah's Witness.
Their hearts are superior than pure gold by far. They are extremely kind.
The gentleman takes care of my trash can every Wednesday without my asking him to do so. They are lovely human beings, and they are not in need of the smallest improvement.
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Between 1933 and 1939, before the war started a lot of people around the world were impressed with Hitler, prime ministers, kings and ordinary people too, there was no shame to have about that.
Time magazine put Hitler on the cover before the war.
Lots of people are impressed with Trump, too. Doesn’t make one less of an idiot supporting him.
@@janteekens4678 Very poor comparison, Hitler and his crew took a country on the verge of total collapse and turned it onto the most prosperous in about three years, they clearly improved the lives of their people, that's why most Germans loved him so much, they were starving, he fed them, no magic there. Now, let's see what Trump did for his people...
Nothing is new this guy is telling cause much of her; Audrey life available on YT. This guy simply try to flog his book.
Not as many details on UT
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