Kan family at home; in Belgium; at the beach

Identifier
irn1003856
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2002.183.1
  • RG-60.4428
Dates
1 Jan 1937 - 31 Dec 1938
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

Biographical History

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.

Scope and Content

Robert and Betsy ride a bicycle down a gravel road in front of large house, trees in BG. Shots from an airfield, planes taking off. "KLM" on the sides of the planes. Robert and Betsy in backyard. Empty garden. Duck and ducklings swimming. At the beach, CUs of children's faces. Robert and Betsy playing in the sand. 01:03:02 Robert leaves house and walks towards the camera. He walks through the front gate and waves. A dog runs through trees. Hunting party. People ride horses, dogs run. A man throws a bird to the pack of dogs. 01:04:55 LS, road along waterfront. Robert and Betsy stand in front of a monument of three men working. LS, tall monument. MS, children stand in front of plaque: "Heir Werd De Dijkgesloten 28 Mei 1932". VAR shots of the road. MS, side of a car. Woman in dark clothing walks away from the camera. Dock, boats on the water, views across the water. 01:06:17 Pan from lifeboats to shoreline. More shots of the shore. Cars disembark from the ferry. 01:07:22 EXT magnificent gothic-style buildings. MS, modern building. Pan from buildings to Zandvoort beach. 01:08:27 "Zandvoort 1938" written with stones in the sand. Robert rides his bicycle down the street. 01:09:04 More scenes from the beach. Robert and Betsy play, shovel sand. Robert rides a pony. 01:09:52 Title, "Z Zee Zon Zwemmen Zandvoort Zuiderbad zzzzozzzz." Two women (one of them is Jeanne), Robert, and Betsy leave the house, Robert salutes the camera as he walks. Four people walk down the boardwalk, water on left and houses on right. The two women and children, most of them wearing bathing suits, walk down the stairs. Shoreline. 01:10:40 Robert plays in the sand. More scenes of water and people swimming and boating. Robert and Betsy wade in the water, walk with shovels and dig in the sand, watch a man empty stones from the beach into a cart, and sit in the sand. Frits poses with a sand sculpture. The family lays on the dunes.

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