Kan family vacationing during winter in Switzerland

"Onze reis naar St. Moritz Januari 1933" [Our travel to St. Moritz January 1933] Sign for "Chur," a city in eastern Switzerland, in a train station. Jeanne in a fur coat, large cart of luggage in BG. Swiss Alps. Camera pans across the words "St. Moritz 1933" drawn in the snow. View from a sleigh, horse pulling the sleigh seen at right. Wooded mountains and telephone poles in BG. Mountains, trees, and buildings from the sleigh. Another sleigh passes to the left. Pan from people walking in front of a building to the valley and mountains. 01:02:32 Jeanne looks at the mountains and turns to the camera squinting her eyes from the sun. Jeanne walks up a snowy incline. She turns and looks at the camera. Pan across landscape. 01:03:10 Frits eats in a chair. People sunbathing. More scenic shots including the town. Jeanne walks towards the camera with her parents. Jeanne, arm in arm, with her mother. 01:05:01 People skating on an ice rink. Jeanne and her mother sleep (sitting in a sleigh?). Mountain. 01:06:41 People walk up the snowy slope towards the camera. Trolley/train goes over a bridge. Jeanne and her parents sit in a sleigh. CUs, Jeanne's parents. Mountains. 01:08:29 Jeanne skates with a man. Group poses. Jeanne and a man walk down a snow mound, the man sits and slides down the hill. 01:09:52 Something written in the snow, it is unclear, a can is next to the word. Jeanne and two friends walk towards the camera. Mountains. 01:10:35 Frits and same two friends walk down a cleared path in the snow. 01:11:05 Sleigh races from audience stands. Jeanne walks toward the camera. Horse races and crowds.

Kan family at the zoo

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Ouwehand Zoo in Rhenen. Two children looking at various animals. EXT shots of the pavilion buildings at the zoo; animals in the exhibits; crowd watching seals. Children feed pigeons and hold a goat.

Kan family in US postwar: at the beach

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Silver Point Beach in Rockaway, NY. Betsy on a beach blanket with several young men, including her fiancé closest to the camera. People at the beach. 01:03:17 A young man wearing glasses (Robert?) walks with a girl in a bathing suit. 01:03:24 Betsy's fiancé holds her hand to the camera and points to a ring on her finger. The two of them with Frits, walking down the boardwalk with Jeanne. Betsy walks with Frits.

Kan family vacationing during summer in Switzerland

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In 2002, siblings Robert F. Kan and Betsy Klein donated this and other films (see more below) that capture vacations, daily activities, and other moments in their Dutch Jewish family's prewar life. They and their parents, Frits Kan and Jeanne (Bloch) Kan, escaped the Nazis by immigrating to the United States in May 1940. Robert's wife, Francisca Verdoner Kan, and her siblings also donated family films. Side view of a bus. Plaque: "Chur - Flims Wald Haus." Jeanne, Robert, and Betsy sit in the bus. People move luggage, seen from the rear of the bus. Robert in a lake wearing a hat and playing with an inflatable shark. He bobs the toy up and down in the water and waves. Shoreline with people. Large building, side of a steep hill covered with pine trees, trolley system on the hill going down to the lakeshore. Robert and Betsy sit on the shore with two other girls wearing hats. Jeanne poses with other women on a rock near the lake. Jeanne, Betsy and Robert swim. People in swimsuits sit in the grass, sunbathing. Pan. Kan family swims. 01:02:32 Color. Lake seen from a distant point on a hill. Shots of the lake as the cameraman takes the trolley to the shoreline. Betsy walks among other people on a small wooden bridge. She rubs her eyes. More color shots of the lake and surrounding landscape. Children sit on, and then dive off, a diving board. Betsy sits on a diving block and later jumps off a diving board. 01:04:02 MS, two young girls seen earlier sit with Robert and Betsy. Pan across the lake and trees, barely legible sign.

Kan family: children play in US postwar

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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.

Warehouse operations in the Dutch East Indies

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In Batavia, the former capital of the Dutch East Indies [Batavia is now Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia] EXT white stucco building from across a street. People in a wagon and riding bicycles pass from right to left. CU, building with the name Lehmann and Co. above the doorway. Black car pulls up to the side of a building and a man, dressed in white with a safari hat, exits the car. He talks to someone in the car, looks at the camera, and waves before entering the building. Another car pulls up and three men in white suits exit the car and enter the building. Again a car pulls up and another man enters the building. 01:03:02 INT, man sits at a desk counting money, briefly looks at the camera. MS, man from a different angle. Two men, one sitting at a desk, hold papers and talk to one another. VAR shots of men in the office. Three men (Batavian locals?) work in an office. One points to something in a book. He looks and smiles. MS, pan, men. Men seen earlier exiting cars in an office, going over paperwork. INT, office with tables, pan as man walks through and another sits at a desk. 01:06:27 Alley, boxes, truck drives slowly towards the camera. Street, pedestrians, some on bicycles. Several people on the truck which is loaded with boxes. Truck sign reads "N.V. HET BATAVIA VEEM." Camera follows truck down another road and parking next to a building. Men unload boxes from the truck. 01:08:03 Warehouse. Boxes unloaded from truckbed. More INT shots of warehouse. Man paints the side of boxes. Batavian men in the warehouse, smiling at the camera. 01:09:39 EXT white stucco building with a car parked in front. Sign hangs from a tree reading: "LEHMANN & CO. AMSTERDAM BATAVIA- C.- SOERABAIA." Batavian man rides a bicycle down the alley seen earlier. Another shot of the sign.

Queen's Day celebrations in Amsterdam

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Olympisch Stadion in Amsterdam. "JWB" painted on the field with a crown. Pan across the field. People holding flags visible on the sidelines. Events at the stadium during the 40th anniversary Jubilee celebrations for Queen Wilhelmina in 1938. Cars driving into the stadium and around to the section where the cameraman is seated. Crowds in the stadium, many of them waving. Parade-blocks march past the stands around the stadium. A large group of women in white parade by. More parading follows including people on horseback and others carrying flags. 01:04:12 Rowing contest. Camera follows the boats. People running and bicycling along the banks of the canal/river. Shots of audience stands. 01:05:28 Dutch newspaper "Algemeen Handelsbland" with the date 16 June 1938. Focus on large picture on the paper's cover. Monument dedication ceremony (unknown). Draped monument before the ceremony, the arrival of dignitaries(?), and the dedication ceremony. 01:08:53 Shipping yard, launching of a ship. Decorations cover the ship's name on the hull. 01:11:01 Pan, stadium full of people. People in costume parade across the field. People arrive in carriages and on horseback, a large orchestra plays on the field (the conductor directs from a platform), and dancers perform. 01:13:30 Color. Dance performance. Parading past the stands in costumes and on floats.

Kan family vacationing during winter in Switzerland

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Title card with "Arosa" centered under a stick figure with skis. Next card: "Grd Hotel Tschuggen" revealed. Next card: "Arosa 23 Dec. 1934 - 15 Jan. 1935." Robert, Betsy, Jeanne, and another woman wave from a train car window (the left of the car shows the name "Arosa"). Betsy, Robert, and Jeanne sit in a sled covered in white fur. Betsy pulls Robert on a sled. Both children wave. 01:01:24 The façade of "Grand Hotel Tschuggen" with a Swiss flag. Kan family and others. Jeanne, Betsy, and Robert sit with friends in a horse drawn sleigh. Different angles as they ride. MS, stationary sleigh with vacationers. Betsy, covered in snow, and others stand next to the sled. The façade of "Sporthotel hof Maran." Betsy plays in the snow. Building. Snow brushed off Betsy's snowsuit. Jeanne in the sleigh with others. 01:02:45 Handmade title: "REIS NAAR AROSA 1934/35 Betsy leert schaatsenryden De eerste maal op schaatsen-----later gaat het al veel beter!" LS ice rink (VQ: dark, people in silhouette). MS, Robert on ice. Betsy helped up by an unknown adult. Betsy skates while Jeanne and another woman sit on benches in BG. She falls down and is helped up by her mother. 01:03:50 Two professional skaters perform before audience. 01:05:25 Handmade title: "REIS NAAR AROSA 1934/35 Slede-uitstapjes Tailing-Party naar Hof Maran. Naar Lützirüti!!" Group, including Jeanne and Betsy, on sleds. VAR shots of the sledding party. 01:06:41 Betsy, Robert, and an unidentified woman skating. Ice skating lessons. 01:07:37 Family eats at an outdoor pavilion. Robert, Betsy, and Jeanne eating, with others seen earlier. Robert tries on skiing goggles. Betsy, wearing sunglasses, tilts her head and smiles. 01:08:10 Jeanne, the children, and others seen earlier, pull sleds behind them. Landscape and the sledding group. 01:09:19 Squirrels. Horse drawn sleigh, sledding party, smiling and waving. Extreme CUs of Robert and Betsy. 01:10:05 Snow-covered mountains. Ice rink with Robert, Betsy, and Jeanne. Mountains. 01:11:36 "Arosa" in the snow. Betsy to the right. Frits walks down a snow covered path. Jeanne sits with the children on a bench. MS, Robert walks to a sled. Frits, Jeanne, and Robert pose. People sled down a small hill near a ski lodge. 01:12:46 Robert sits with an unidentified woman by a table with packages. Betsy on skis. Robert sleds down a hill. Handmade title: "EINDE VAN HET FEEST TOT WEERZIENS HET VOLGEND JAAR IN ???????????"

Kan family vacationing during winter in Switzerland

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"Arosa 1935-6" drawn in the snow. Mountains, trees, and a bridge (possibly shot from inside a train car). Jeanne, Betsy, Robert and a woman sit outside next to a building, pine tree in BG. Robert makes faces at the camera. Jeanne, Betsy, and Robert ice skate. 01:01:43 Waiter delivers champagne glasses on a tray. Robert and Betsy on a sled. CUs, children look at the camera, smile, and sled. Robert wears new goggles. Children feed squirrels in the forest. Snow-covered mountain landscape. 01:03:29 People walk up the mountain. Jeanne with her back to a ski lodge. People walk up a mountain. Landscape. Frits sits on a bench, looks around. 01:05:01 Jeanne and the children with others eat around a table. Robert makes faces at the camera. MS, dining pavilion. EXT, "Sporthotel hof Maran." Jeanne holds Robert's hand and walks towards the camera. Betsy and another girl, pull a sled and walk with them. The children feed the squirrels again. 01:07:35 Robert and Betsy ice skate. Jeanne holds Robert's hand and walks towards the camera. Betsy and a young girl hold onto another woman's arms (Jeanne's sister?) and walk towards the camera. They walk on a snow-covered path in the woods. The children ice skate. 01:09:38 "Naar Maran" drawn in the snow. Jeanne, the children, and an unidentified woman sit in a sleigh. They stand and waving at the camera. Frits on a sled with Robert and Betsy. Jeanne, Robert, and Betsy eat with other people at a table. Unknown women walk towards the camera. People eat. Jeanne stands at the edge of an ice rink with other women. 01:11:22 Robert ice skates, moving on and off screen. Jeanne and Frits pose for the camera. Robert and Betsy pose for the camera. Robert sticks out his tongue.

1925 wedding of Dutch Jews (tinted 35mm print)

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Dutch intertitles. Hand-tinted color home movie of two unknown children reenacting the courtship and wedding of Dutch Jews Frits Kan and Jeanne Bloch. The first section of the film introduces various children with a title and then a shot of that child. "Mei 4, 1924" Boy identified as Frits and a little girl, Jeanne, leaving a car and embarking onto a boat. The two children give each other hugs and kisses. 01:02:34 Frits waves a handkerchief from the rear of the boat and Jeanne from the dock. Boat departs from the dock as Frits continues to wave. 01:05:02 In Singapore Frits on a wagon being pulled by two men. Frits riding a pony. Jeanne writes a letter. The camera cuts to Frits eating a banana. Jeanne eats a piece of cake. 01:07:34 Frits enters the house. 01:07:49 Jeanne waves through a window. Children are dressed up and pretending get married. 01:09:58 Introduction of the council of ministers followed by Frits and Jeanne's sisters and their parents. 01:12:35 Dressed in wedding attire, the actual, adult Frits and Jeanne stand before the camera on their wedding day in the Netherlands in 1925. Their departure follows, guests, arrival at city hall, and their first kiss.

Kan family vacationing during winter in Switzerland

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"Grand Hotel Tschuggen" reservation slip. Handmade picture of the hotel and "1937." Robert, Betsy, and Frits ice skate. People in observation bleachers next to the rink, waving. One woman taking photographs or film. People skate. Landscape shot of the mountains. Betsy and Robert pull their sleds. Jeanne walks behind them. Betsy ice skates. Frits ice skates. 01:02:49 Boy (unidentified) with skis and ski poles. 01:03:23 The boy skates with Robert and Betsy and the Kan family. Robert wears new ski goggles. 01:05:30 color Ice skating. Older man and woman outside the hotel, smiling and waving. Robert and Jeanne walk towards the camera. Jeanne and elderly couple in a sleigh, waving. Landscape, mountains, town viewed from the sleigh. 01:06:41 Jeanne and couple pose. Ski lodge, patrons. More landscape. 01:07:21 Frits, in a red sweater, and Jeanne pose, woman with her back to the camera. Robert slides down a hill. Robert, Betsy, and others gathered around a table (outdoor café?), ski lodge and mountains in BG. Robert and Betsy wear blue long sleeved shirts. 01:08:04 Children skate, Frits skates. People stand outside the hotel and around the ice rink. 01:09:02 black and white. Jeanne carries a pair of skis. Jeanne and Betsy carry skis and walk along a snow-covered path. Frits carries skis. 01:09:37 Family skiing. 01:10:53 color Jeanne carries skis. She nods to a woman passing on her right who gestures to her. 01:11:11 black and white Landscape, sleighs. Crowd stands around and sits in lounge chairs. 01:12:07 to 01:12:52 The family eats. Boy seen earlier at 01:02:49 is also visible. People sit on the roof of a ski lodge. 01:13:01 "Alkoholfreie Wirtschaft" sign. People on the roof. Landscape. Betsy and Robert ice skate. 01:14:42 Frits and another man. "Ende" with hand-drawn skis.

Kan family vacationing during winter in Switzerland

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Color. Scenic shots of Arosa, Switzerland and mountains. Ice skating in FG. Ice rink. Betsy sits on some steps outside of a building and waves. Ice rink. Pan up to the snow covered mountainside. Betsy gets a skating lesson and Jeanne also skates. Betsy and Robert stand next to a building, balloons hang from the side of the building's railing. From overhead, a long line of horse drawn sleighs with balloons. Jeanne sits in a sleigh, waves, balloons hang from the sleigh behind her. More shots of the sleighs and horses. 01:06:37 MS, Betsy holds a blue balloon with "Tschuggen Club Arosa" in white on the balloon. [from the Tschuggen hotel] Sleighs move along a cleared path in the snow, one with a large banner reading "Tschuggen Club." Betsy and Jeanne stand outside a large building, sleighs in BG. 01:07:31 Ice skaters perform. 01:08:22 Jeanne and Betsy pick up skis. Robert also on skis, wearing a blue hat and scarf and skiing goggles. Jeanne and Frits, both carrying skis, walk towards the camera. VAR shots, Kan family skis, the children sled. 01:10:54 Black and white. Jeanne and Betsy get skis, walk towards the slopes, and then put skis on. 01:11:39 Jeanne wearing the number "1" and Betsy "3," briefly posing for the camera. They ski down a hill and practicing turning while stationary. An unidentified man gives things to Betsy and Jeanne who then shake his hand. The two women pose for the camera pointing to little pins on their lapels.

Kan family at home; in Belgium; at the beach

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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.

Kan children perform skits; at the beach in Zandvoort

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Sign placed next to a pot of flowers. INT, Robert and Betsy perform skits, adults watch (presumably at the Villa Elsa in 1938). Robert wears a military style uniform with a hat and plume and a toy gun. He bows to the audience (not seen) and salutes the camera. CUs are not in focus. Betsy performs as a ballerina, wearing a costume with a flowered wreath on her head. 01:00:59 Betsy and Robert in costume. VAR shots of the children in other costumes with pans to show entire costume. Frits and a light-haired woman in evening attire. Others in costumes performing for an audience. Camera pans up and down the actors to show their full costumes. 01:02:14 Two people hold up a sign reading "Zandvoort" and "Nederland" (hard to read). Another actor performs, guests in evening attire sit around tables. 01:03:07 Frits's parents sitting at right. Jeanne can be seen near the back of the first table. People at the dinner. Betsy and Robert in costume in a garden. Both children smile and wave at the camera. 01:03:44 Frits stands in the garden and waves. Jeanne sits in the garden. Another shot of the sign next to flowers showing at the beginning of this reel.

Kan family vacationing in France

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Color. People in a field of yellow flowers. CUs of people (unidentified). Countryside, river with a house. Men and women walk down a dirt road towards the camera, trees in BG. People walk in small groups - three women walk side by side and two men several paces behind them. Scenic shots of the countryside. People walk in the garden. 01:04:38 Group of men and women in a garden. Sundial, large white manor. People sitting in lawn chairs. 01:05:09 Robert on the far left and Betsy on the far right walking with their grandparents (Frits's parents). Grandma tosses a ball to Betsy who then tosses it to her grandfather. Lake, VAR shots of people on a large waterslide and swimming. 01:05:59 Robert, Betsy, and Jeanne walk in the sand towards the camera. Betsy and Robert pose. Small deer on the beach. 01:06:37 Jeanne (?) walks towards the camera. EXT, city.

Kan family travels to and from New York by ship

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Color. "Transatlantique - Linea Frances" and title: "Le Havre - Southampton - New York - Depart du Mercredi 15 Fevrier." New York City. Camera pans up and down showing city streets and skyscrapers (shot from the top of a building). 01:08:36 Man, woman (Jeanne?), and young boy walk towards the camera - it appears the cameraman knows them although they are unidentified. More scenic shots of New York from street level. 01:09:46 Bridge from inside a car, shots of Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge (driving on Manhattan Bridge?) New York from street level. Camera pans up to buildings. 01:11:07 Poster showing the Queen Mary. Another title card reads "R.M.S. 'Queen Mary' Captain G. Gibbons, R.D., R.N.R. Left New York, March 24, 1939 - Gross Tonnage - 81,235.18; Length - 1,018 feet; Breadth - 118 feet." Men and women on deck of a ship. Dock. Crowd waves. A sign off the dock reads "Cunard White Star." Manhattan skyline in BG. Boatyard and skyline as the ship departs. 01:14:00 Statue of Liberty seen from the ship. Dock, camera positioned next to a large ship. From another angle, camera focuses on the side of the ship, American flag near the bow. 01:14:44 Ship pulls away from the dock and on the stern the name "Queen Mary-Liverpool." Camera lingers on the ship moving out to sea before cutting.

Kan family in US postwar: high school graduation

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Betsy and her boyfriend walking, both with cigarettes. Betsy, her boyfriend, Jeanne, and an older women (young man's mother?) in front of a large building on the day of Betsy's graduation. Jeanne and the other woman with Frits and another man (young man's father?). Women in caps and gowns holding diplomas and flowers exiting a building. People lining the staircase watch the procession. Betsy in cap and gown during the procession and afterwards with her classmates. 01:01:25 Jeanne, Betsy, and her fiancé pose for the camera. 01:01:33 Airplane on runway, people disembark from the plane. 01:01:55 Jeanne.01:01:58 Crowd in front of a large building. Students in caps and gowns exit the building in BG. 01:02:03 Robert poses with cap, gown, and diploma. Jeanne walks up from behind him wearing a hat and sunglasses. Façade of the building, camera pans up "Forest Hills High School" on belfry. [Forest Hills High School is near Queens, NY.]

Kan family postwar in US: Robert's child

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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 life in US, postwar

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Color. EXT, row of houses along a street. "B.H. Sanders" on the side of a mailbox. INT, Betsy? holding baby. Front of a house, women and baby exit the house. MS of Betsy? holding baby. Baby in the stroller, Betsy? and her mother-in-law walk down the street (similar to 01:04:01 on Film ID 2478). INT and EXT shots of the baby and Betsy? with the baby sitting in a chair, the two outside, and the baby in a crib. There appears to be a Donald Duck toy in the baby's crib. 01:11:28 A man (Betsy's husband?) carrying the baby out of the house. MSs, father holds the baby. Betsy and her husband exit the house and get into a car. INT, baby in a crib. 01:12:23 Black and white. Three people sit on a bench with a baby (Betsy, her husband, and Jeanne?). Jeanne? and Frits? walk towards the camera. Betsy? gardening. INT, baby in crib and toys. Betsy? plays with baby. 01:15:37 Betsy? walking with baby stroller down street. Betsy's husband burning leaves.

Kan family vacationing during winter in Switzerland

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Hand-drawn title card with a ski hill, Swiss flag, and building: "Winter 1931-32 St. Moritz." At a train station. Scenic shots of the city of St. Moritz and surrounding mountains. Jeanne, wearing a hat, fur coat, and heels; walking up an angled street towards the camera. Cresta Run toboggan course. Scenic shot of the city, more shots of the toboggan course. 01:01:46 LS, ice rink. From a distance, people ice-skating with the Swiss Alps in BG. Closer view of the ice rink with figure skating performance. Various acts, audience, Alps in BG. 01:05:14 Ice rink from the side. Couples skate as the camera pans across the rink along with shots of Jeanne in a skating lesson. MS, Jeanne and another woman get drinks. The two women clink glasses, toast to the camera, and drink. Women skating. Frits skating. Jeanne eating at a table, she smiles at the camera and continues to eat. 01:06:54 Scenic view of the mountains. Horse-drawn sled with Jeanne and others. 01:07:14 Jeanne on a bench waving a scarf towards the camera then taking off her coat. Pan across the mountain range to more scenic shots of the country landscape covered in snow. 01:08:10 Two men, a woman, and Jeanne skip through a snow covered path. More shots of the mountains and a ski lodge. Jeanne points towards the mountains with a cane. People walk up the mountain, sit outside around a ski lodge. 01:09:34 A ski lift trolley goes up a hill and down to the city. Pan across the valley with St. Moritz nestled near a frozen river, Jeanne looks down at the city. Eating. Waiters wear ice skates.

Kan family vacations in Switzerland

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"Sint Moritz 1934" Family vacations to St. Moritz, Switzerland during the winter. Women getting off a train. Scenic views of the town. Mountain with snow (shot from a ski lift?). 01:00:55 Three people stand in front of a sign pointing to the "Corviglia Huette Resturant". People hiking up the mountain and views of the landscape with mountains, trees, and snow. 01:01:54 Some women and a man are shown relaxing on chairs in the sun and eating near the ski lodge. Shots of the lodge. 01:03:05 A woman ice skating. The camera shows the same people walking up towards the camera with the mountains and an ice rink in BG. Landscape shots of the mountains and people skiing downhill. 01:05:33 A man and a woman have lunch in a restaurant and the woman is shown fixing her hair. Footage becomes very grainy and difficult to see at 01:06:43 while a man sits on a bench near the skating rink. More shots of the snow resort area and people joking around for the camera. Mountains.

Jeanne and Frits Kan as bride and groom

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Dutch intertitles. Home movie of two unknown children reenacting the courtship and wedding of Dutch Jews Frits Kan and Jeanne Bloch. The first section of the film introduces various children with a title and then a shot of that child. "Mei 4, 1924" Boy identified as Frits and a little girl, Jeanne, leaving a car and embarking onto a boat. The two children give each other hugs and kisses. 01:02:34 Frits waves a handkerchief from the rear of the boat and Jeanne from the dock. Boat departs from the dock as Frits continues to wave. 01:05:02 In Singapore Frits on a wagon being pulled by two men. Frits riding a pony. Jeanne writes a letter. The camera cuts to Frits eating a banana. Jeanne eats a piece of cake. 01:07:34 Frits enters the house. 01:07:49 Jeanne waves through a window. Children are dressed up and pretending get married. 01:09:58 Introduction of the council of ministers followed by Frits and Jeanne's sisters and their parents. 01:12:35 Dressed in wedding attire, the actual, adult Frits and Jeanne stand before the camera on their wedding day in the Netherlands in 1925. Their departure follows, guests, arrival at city hall, and their first kiss.

Kan family: daily life in Amsterdam; at the beach; at home

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Title in Dutch: "Betsy als baby in 1928" Scenes of a baby in a carriage and two women - Jeanne holding baby Marcus?, walking down the street. 01:00:56 On a different day (notice clothing), children with adults in a street. A little girl in white (Betsy?) looks up at the camera. 01:01:51 At the beach, children play in the sand. Man and two women on the beach. 01:02:26 Man and woman may be Frits and Jeanne. CU, girl and boy. 01:02:50 Baby in a bassinet. A woman feeds the baby. Girl in a white coat (Betsy) and hat walks towards camera and places a letter into a mailbox at 01:03:27 aided by an older man. There are various shots of the girl in white (she is shown holding hands with two people, possibly her Grandparents, and carrying a balloon). MSs, family walking towards camera (not seen before). Betsy running in the park. 01:05:10 Baby in a bassinet, springtime. Girl in white (Betsy?) running in the street. 01:05:39 Women with children and baby carriage outside. VAR shots of a woman with baby. 01:06:46 An older woman in hat and fur coat poses in front of the camera. Two women drink from teacups. Kids on rollerskates. Cut to a woman pushing a baby carriage with an infant (Marcus?) and the little girl in white (Betsy?). 01:07:14 More scenes at the beach, children in the sand. 01:07:41 Girl in white plays in a backyard/outside. 01:08:42 Woman plays with a baby outside (Jeanne?). A little girl (Betsy?) rides a tricycle. The baby and girl next to each other. CUs baby. 01:10:09 Large group of adults and children at the beach. Scenes at the beach. 01:11:09 A little girl (Betsy?) and woman play with badminton racket on lawn. Scenes of the landscape with sand and grass. 01:12:20 Man and little girl (Betsy?) dance for the camera. More scenes at the beach including a woman talking to a child and children playing in the sand. 01:13:04 Older man and woman (grandparents?) next to baby in carriage. CU baby smiling, with girl. 01:13:51 Children coming out of cabana. Baby in highchair looking at camera. Street scene with a baby in carriage pushed by Jeanne(?) with older man (grandpa?) and woman next to them. The older man gives something to the baby and a man looks out a window. Shots of an older woman holding a baby. 01:15:25 Baby sitting on a blanket in grass while the little girl (Betsy?) feeds the baby. 01:16:38 Two women (one is Jeanne), the little girl, and the baby in the carriage walk down the street towards the camera. Little girl walks by herself towards the camera. Girl and two women, in furs, walking through a doorway. Baby laughs excitedly. Children playing on a swing set. The little girl pushes a stroller and walks down the street holding Jeanne's hand. Baby in a carriage. 01:18:34 Several people, including a nanny, walking next to the baby stroller as the little girl runs towards the camera. Boy walks holding mother's hand. 01:19:37 Baby sits in a highchair eating.

Kan family at the beach in Zandvoort in 1932

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Hand-made title card that reads "Zandvoort 1932" with sun, sailboat and water. At the beach. Little boy (Robert?) playing in the sand with an ore and older girl (Betsy?) waving. Jeanne, mother, looks on from a beach chair. Woman and children walk down a set of stairs on the beach. 01:01:30 Little boy pushes a wheelbarrow and the little girl runs. Group of small children in white clothes and hats sit in the sand while a woman in sunglasses holds one of them up. Posing for group photograph. Children are sucking on lollipops. Little boy shovels sand and is joined by another child. Digging in sand. Little boy pushes a stroller across the sand. An older man helps him and points to the camera. 01:03:53 Hand-made title card reads "In Het Zonne Bad" with a sun and wagon. Ocean, people swimming and playing in the water. The camera follows a woman as she gets a towel. 01:04:40 Large group of men women and children on the beach, pose for picture. People sit in lounge chairs in the sun (probably Jeanne and Frits). CU of Jeanne?. MSs of Frits?. Shots of the water. HS, pan of the beach. Jeanne exits cabana and then another woman (seen earlier) in a bathing suit. Woman and little girl (Betsy?) exit cabana. CU little boy (Robert?). Jeanne feeding little boy. Man and woman walking towards camera (Jeanne and Frits?). 01:07:46 Jeanne walks and sits by one of the cabanas. LS, shot of the beach and people playing.

Kan family: daily life in Netherlands; children at play

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House shot from across the street. Jeanne and children on sidewalk. Two children walk hand in hand in backyard. Four older men look down hill in yard, woman and two children in BG. Children stand by a window looking out. 01:10:14 Two older women stand next to little girl (Betsy?) and watch the little boy walk towards the camera. Little boy (Robert?) walks around the yard and plays with a ball. Woman and children cross street, walking. Boy eats in chair and points to the camera with Betsy(?) on the right. Shot of both children. 01:11:43 Scenes of a band playing on the beach. People gathered around listing to the music. Little girl runs across the sand towards the camera. Hand-made title card with sun and water "Einde". Children (older than before) play and run on the street while the adults look on. Frits, Jeanne, an older woman, and three children (Robert, Betsy, and an older brother) walk toward the camera. CUs, toddler Robert.

Kan family ice skating; at home in Amsterdam; Betsy at school

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Title card: "1934" EXT shots of an ice rink with people skating in Amsterdam. 01:00:31 Side view of a house. Betsy and Robert exit the house and walk down the steps towards the camera. Jeanne exits the house behind the children and closes the door. 01:00:44 Tall fence with the number 66. Children run down the walkway towards the camera. 01:00:53 EXT, wooded area. Children run towards the camera. Ice rink in BG. EXT of ice rink and people skating. 01:01:05 Betsy skates while holding Robert's hand. More shots of the ice rink including two swans swimming in a patch of open water. 01:01:38 City street with Jeanne walking towards the camera smiling. Children are playing in the BG. The two children run towards the camera. More shots of the same sidewalk with the children playing with marbles. Betsy tries to take the marble from Robert. 01:02:06 INT shots of a classroom. Children follow each other in a line around the room. 01:02:27 Pan across the line of children standing. The tallest girl in white (far left) is Betsy and the third boy (far right) might be Robert. 01:03:14 EXT, deck with the two children playing with their toys. Betsy moves a large toy car. Robert comes and takes the toy car, climbs inside, and drives it across the length of the deck. 01:04:07 Frits moves in front of the camera next to Robert, still in the toy car. He smiles and points to the camera. Robert stands in the toy car, gets out and moves towards the camera. 01:04:30 The children stand side by side clapping. 01:04:45 EXT, sidewalk, houses on the left and trees on both sides. A group of adults walk towards the camera, Jeanne is on the far left, man with cane, one younger boy. VAR CUs. 01:05:16 EXT, garden. Robert runs around chased by an elderly man with a hat (a grandfather?). He stops running and looks at the camera. Other adults turn and look at the camera. Garden with Betsy and Robert running around a flower pot, laughing and running from the elderly man. Guests at a table outside. 01:05:52 CU, Betsy wearing a dress and hat, holding her doll and smiling. The children sit on the lawn and eat.

Kan family at the beach in Zandvoort

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Hand writes "Zandvoort 1934" on parchment. 01:06:40 Betsy tries to ride a bicycle. Robert rides a scooter. Woman holds the seat of the bicycle as the girl rides. 01:07:34, beach. Jeanne and an unidentified man in a robe over a bathing suit walk towards the camera. Jeanne walks away. 01:08:01 Betsy digs a hole in the sand. Several children play. 01:08:47 Betsy rides her bike alone down the street. Robert drives his toy car (previously seen on Film ID 2473 at 01:03:14) down the street while the woman watches. 01:09:27 Robert garden pulling a toy tractor in the garden. EXT - a group of people in a field. Beach chairs. Betsy walks around holding her hat. 01:10:09 Cut to a woman, possibly Jeanne's sister, sitting behind a vase of flowers. Setting up a picnic. Children walk around. 01:11:19 Beach. The children run towards a group of children playing in the sand. CU, building a sand castle. CUs, various children. 01:12:10 MS, Jeanne, who smiles and talks to people sitting near her who are not shown on screen. 01:12:25 Betsy and another girl swing on a pole. Robert on a swing.

Kan family at the airport and beach

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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.

Kan family on vacation in 1936

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Newspaper clipping: "22 Maart 1936 BEGIN VAN DE LENTE Dit jaar meer dan een symbolische datum. - Ook voor heden gunstige vooruitzichten." Betsy, Robert, and their grandfather (Jeanne's father) on a sidewalk. Betsy jumps rope and looks at the camera while Robert holds his grandfather's hand, skipping. The children, Jeanne, and her parents walk towards the camera down a different sidewalk. Trees/park; elderly man with cane. 01:00:18 Driving on road; people walk and bike on either side of the car. Several shots. 01:00:44 At the beach, Betsy digs in the sand with a shovel. She smiles and looks at the camera. Robert digs in the sand. The children build something in the sand. 01:01:04 Newspaper clipping: "PASCHEN- 12 April 1936- KOELE PAASCHDAGEN Wel kans op zon, maar geen werkelijk zacht weer." Robert, Betsy and another tall child stand next to a car in front of a house. The children watch a man who latches something to the back of the car. INT, car filled with things. 01:01:29 Beach with children, two carry shovels while the tallest boy carries a ball. Robert and Betsy stand in front of the shovels which have been buried in the sand and used as goal posts. Betsy chases the ball. People ride horses across the beach. Robert walks up a hill on the beach. 01:02:06 Outside a house, children run and jump from the ledge of stairs on deck. MS, Robert stands next to the doorway, waves to the camera. EXT, sidewalk next to a gate of a house. Car is parked to the right. Betsy, Robert, and another girl look towards the camera, all dressed up. Robert tips his hat, CU Betsy. 01:02:37 Airfield. Planes lined up on the runway, the planes take off. 01:03:27 Robert rides his bicycle on the sidewalk. Large white house with pillars. People walk around and out of the house. Man and boy canoe down a river. Robert, Betsy, and a woman play a game outside. The cameraman throws a ball that the children try to catch. More beach scenes with Robert, who is wearing a white hat, playing in the sand with a shovel. Robert and Betsy sit on the arms of a beach chair and eat. Robert flies a kite. 01:05:11 Two women, Robert, and Betsy walk down path with buildings in BG and long grass. Scenic shots of the countryside, children next to a river. Jeanne's parents lay in the grass. Landscape, children walk down path. Robert rides a bike on the patio. 01:06:20 Color. Betsy rides a bike. Beach and water in BG. Robert drives toy cars into a sand castle. Pan across the beach and the waterfront. Sunset. Robert and Betsy play in the sand. 01:07:26 Adults shake hands and wave at the camera. VAR shots of the beach, Red, white and blue flags are seen. Children dig in the sand. Frits poses in front of the camera with them. 01:08:27 Black and white. Extreme CU, Betsy wears a bow in her hair. River with two swans. Countryside. Swimming area on a lake/river. 01:09:14 People lie on beach chairs in the grass and look at the camera. Adults at a table. Aerial shot, from a balcony, of two women. Someone on the balcony talks to the women on the ground. Birthday party. 01:09:45 A group of children wear party hats, throw streamers, play games, and eat cake. Newspaper clipping: "1 September Robs naar school." Robert exits house, stands on the landing, and walks towards the camera.

Frits & Jeanne Kan in US, postwar

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Color. Jeanne walks towards the camera, wearing a fur coat and hat. Frits walks towards the camera. Jeanne gets onto a plane.

Kan family: daily life; picnic

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House (the same shown at the beginning of Film ID 2473 - in Amsterdam?). Betsy walks down the stairs dressed in a coat and hat, carrying a briefcase. Robert walks out of the house towards the camera. He takes off his hat and bows. Jeanne exits the house along with Betsy who closes the door. The three stand together. 01:13:24 EXT, family picnic. VAR shots of children playing, people eating, and laying around. 01:14:24 Scenic woods. Family sits and waves to camera. Ice-cream vendor's cart, children gathered around.

Kan family in US postwar: Betsy's baby

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Color. Betsy walking a baby stroller down a sidewalk (similar to 01:09 on Film ID 2478). Grandparents walk down a sidewalk towards the camera. CU baby in white sleeping in the stroller. Betsy and the baby walking along the sidewalk with Betsy's parents-in-law.