Richard Kahn

EN: With the business partners Kahn and Stern, fellow Jewish refugees from Germany, Adolf Löwenhardt founded the ‘Goor Fat Industry’. In November 1936 the town council agreed to sell the firm a piece of land of 700 square metres at the price of 875 Dutch guilders. Here at the Spechthorstweg they built their factory. Its main business was to turn cattle bones into bonemeal. Alas, the GOVEI (GOorse …

Richard Kahn was Dr. med and a dentist in Dortmund. He married Karola Ruth Voss in 1936. In February 1937 they fled to the Netherlands.

Richard Kahn was married to Karola Ruth Voss. On 25 November 1943 their daughter Sylvia Madeleine was born in Westerbork transit camp.
Record of birth certificates of the Westerbork municipality, currently at the archives of Gemeente Midden-Drenthe in Beilen

Een van de twee echtelieden, Richard of Ruth Kahn-Voss, werd in 1943 gefotografeerd door de fotografe Annemie Wolff. Meer over het gezin Kahn-Voss is te lezen in onderstaand boek.
Tamara Becker en An Huitzing, Op de foto in oorlogstijd: Studio Wolff, 1943 (Eindhoven 2017) 119.