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Kan family at the airport and beach

Born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Robert Kan and his family escaped the Nazis on May 13, 1940 and emigrated to Queens, New York via the Dutch East Indies. He received a BA in Economics from Hofstra Univeristy and worked for thirty years for the US government at the Department of Commerce, the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Science Foundation, and the American Embassy in Tokyo. After retiring from the government, he became a Certified Financial Planner. He was a lifelong Boy Scout and accomplished philatelist. He was married for 58 years to Francisca Verdoner Kan and had three daughters, Jeanette, Susan, and Eleanor. Betsy and Robert exit the house carrying small shovels. The children exit a car and walk towards the camera. Two boys (Robert is on the right) run towards the camera. Betsy waves from a balcony. EXT large house. Pan down to a woman walking down a hill. 01:00:42 Several children and two adults in a field. The children pick things up from the ground. Children sit on a balcony ledge. Robert waves his arms around. Frits enters the screen and stands behind the children, swings Robert back and forth. 01:01:16 Adults sit around a table playing cards and looking at the camera. Pan across the group, several children are standing at left. Sunset, beach, water. 01:01:43 Jeanne and her parents walk towards the camera. It is daytime. Bus, small building, and flagpole in BG. MSs, airplanes taking off and landing. Pan across the airfield. 01:02:28 INT, Robert and Betsy stand in a room with their hands on their hips, then wave to the camera. EXT, Betsy, Robert, and an unidentified girl stand next to a balcony rail. Children, wearing hats, walk towards the camera. 01:02:48 Children swim in a pool. Beach, people in the pool. 01:04:05 Children go down a slide on the beach. Adults in swimsuits and robes wave to the camera from balcony ledge, then walk down to the camera's level. The camera follows two adults walking in the water. Betsy flies a kite. Robert digs in the sand. 01:05:43 Woman and the two children hold the kite string. More scenes from the beach include the children getting pony rides on the beach and pushing each other off a sand mound. 01:07:00 EXT, Robert plays with an electric train set. He looks at the train going in circles and at the camera. Frits (?) puts the train back on the track. Children play in the sand, run in the water, and pose for the camera at the beach.

Collectie
  • EHRI
Type
  • Archief
Rechten
Identificatienummer van European Holocaust Research Infrastructure
  • us-005578-irn1003925
Trefwoorden
  • AIRPORTS
  • Amateur.
  • Amsterdam, Netherlands
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