Her mum sent her to ballet classes in their home town Arnhem and the pupils began giving secret dance shows to raise money for the resistance.
Performances were staged in houses behind closed curtains while Nazi patrols roamed outside. To avoid being discovered, audiences never clapped.
Later the movie icon, who enthralled millions, said: “The best audience I ever had made not a single sound at the end of my performance.”
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