Voyles, Hannie J.

Hannie J. Ostendorf Voyles was born and raised in the Netherlands to a Catholic father and a Jewish mother. She was a schoolgirl during the Nazi occupation and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same school as Anne Frank, until the Ostendorf family moved to a different neighborhood. Amsterdam was liberated on May 5, 1945, and four years later Voyles graduated from the Montessori High School. Days later, she emigrated to America. Within five years, she was married and had a family. She finished her studies in English and Linguistics, then qualified for a faculty position at the Cal...