Editing Xaviera Hollander (section)

==Early life==
Hollander was born Xaviera de Vries in [[Surabaya]], [[Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies|Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies]], which later became part of present-day [[Indonesia]], to a [[History of the Jews in the Netherlands|Dutch Jewish]] physician father and a mother of French and German descent.<ref name="Ross">{{cite news |last=Ross |first=Deborah |title=Xaviera Hollander: Is the Happy Hooker still happy after all these years? |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/xaviera-hollander-is-the-happy-hooker-still-happy-after-all-these-years-8389838.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/xaviera-hollander-is-the-happy-hooker-still-happy-after-all-these-years-8389838.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |newspaper=The Independent |date=8 December 2012 |access-date=29 July 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref> She spent the first years of her life in a [[List of Japanese-run internment camps during World War II|Japanese-run internment camp]].<ref name=advocate>{{Cite journal|last=Che |first=Cathay |title=The Happy Hooker gets the girl |journal=[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]] |pages=80–3 |date=20 August 2002 }}</ref> After the end of Japanese occupation the family returned to the Netherlands.

In her early twenties she left [[Amsterdam]] for [[Johannesburg]], where her stepsister lived. There she met and became engaged to American economist John Weber. When the engagement was broken off, she left South Africa for [[New York City]].<ref name=Hollander1971>{{Cite book |title=The Happy Hooker: My Own Story |publisher=Sphere Books |year=1971 |isbn=978-0-06-001416-2 |last=Hollander |first=Xaviera |url=https://archive.org/details/happyhookermyown00holl }}</ref>