from the article/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey hepburn Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston ; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress and humanitarian............. Born Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston in Brussels to a Dutch noblewoman and British banker, Miss Hepburn seemed destined to a life of privilege. As a child she attended a private school in Great Britain but, after her parents divorce, returned to live with her mother in The Netherlands. Fate had placed her in the path of history. During five years of Nazi occupation, Miss Hepburn tried to lead a normal life in a family that suffered greatly. The Nazis executed her uncle and a cousin of her mother because of their efforts in the resistance movement, and placed her brother in a labor camp. There was always a cloud of fear and repression, she said years later. Like many children, Miss Hepburn suffered malnutrition because of food shortages--her family ultimately surviving on flour made from tulip bulbs. When she wasnt dreaming of becoming a ballerina, Miss Hepburn said later, she and her friends would dream of the food they would eat when the war was over.
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