War Child
“I knew the cold clutch of human terror all through my teens,” Hepburn once said. “I saw it, felt it, heard it—and it never goes away. You see, it wasn’t just a nightmare: I was there, and it all happened.”
In 1939, the Baroness misguidedly evacuated her daughter from Kent, believing she would be safer in neutral Holland. But in May 1940, the Nazis invaded Holland, and five years of hell on earth began.
Ferrer believes World War II was the profound experience that most…

