Kan family: children play in US postwar

Identifier
irn1003934
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2002.183.1
  • RG-60.4438
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

Color. Child in a snow suit shovels snow into a red wagon. Child plays in the snow and builds a snowman. 01:17:32 Backyard in the spring - child plays with a beach ball. Child and women (Betsy and Jeanne?) walk along the side of a street with houses and cherry/apple trees in the lawns.

Note(s)

  • Title handwritten on film label for all of Film ID 2478: "Graduation Betsy Robs Silver Point Donald-Kew Gardens 1949 Kinderen Joe Colland Joplin Feb 1950 Ellison 1954" Not sure which titles correspond to Stories 4434-4438. The donor has not identified people in footage.

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