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.
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 195" Not sure which titles correspond to Stories 4434-4438. The donor has not identified people in footage.
Color. Robert gets into a car, out of the car, and walks to the house. Robert walks out of a house with a boy. They walk down the sidewalk and wave. LS, mother in the doorway of the house. She then walks toward the camera. The boy gets into a car and sits in the driver's seat. 01:07:06 City skyline. Boy plays with children on a sidewalk, children line up for the camera. 01:07:56 Robert holds the hand of a younger child in a blue snowsuit who looks and waves at the camera. Robert and his wife, seen earlier, walk down the sidewalk with the children.
Kan family postwar in US: Robert's child