Louisa Hall

I think that a lot of people I'm close to feel that they went through a period of real difficulty when they moved away from home... You do have to reinvent yourself, and people have to struggle with that. It was really a struggle for me.

My father was born in Amsterdam in a highly religious family. He was in Amsterdam, and he went into hiding right near where Anne Frank was. He was a theoretical physicist and the last Jew to get a Ph.D. in Amsterdam.