Brandon was a maid in a nursing home on Mathenesserlaan in Rotterdam, and Friedhoff was given an attic room there where she could stay for some time.

[3] Friedhoff was wanted by the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), which offered a reward of 1000 guilders for a tip that would lead to her arrest.

Later she was allowed to keep an eye on fighter planes on the roof of the ministry to raise the alarm for impending bombardments.

Her granddaughter Carlijn Vis (1983) wrote Vrij Spel (ISBN 9789025437855), inspired by the stories of her grandmother.

After Vis' death, Brandon remarried at the age of 53 in 1976 to widower Colonel Jan Anne Baron de Smeth [nl] (1924–2017).

[6] After the death of pilot André Hissink, Brandon was the last known living Dutch England sailor at the time.