Wedding day of Aat van Kalken and Tiny Burger
On 22 July 1941, Arend Johannes Dirk van Kalken and Wilhelmina Ida Adriana Burger were married. Film footage of their wedding contains the only surviving film images of Anne Frank.
Trouwfoto van A.J.D. van Kalken en Tiny Burger, Amsterdam, 22 juli 1941
Vervaardiger: Fotobureau Actueel. Fotocollectie Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam Copyright: In copyright (rechten Derden)
The Burger family lived at Merwedeplein 39-II and were neighbours of the Frank family. They lived on the right-hand side of the Frank family, who lived at number 37-II on the same floor. It is possible that they were neighbours who were given the key and asked to look after the cat when the family went into hiding.[1]
On 23 July 1941, the following announcement appeared in De courant Het nieuws van den dag: “A. van Kalken, the well-known javelin thrower and former record holder in the 200 m front crawl, married Miss Tine Burger yesterday, daughter of Mr G. A. Burger, chairman of the Nat. Technische Commissie van de Ned. Atletiek Unie (National Technical Committee of the Dutch Athletics Union)”.[2]
As was customary at the time, the groom came to pick up the bride at her parents' house, after which they drove together to Amsterdam City Hall. This event was captured on celluloid by an acquaintance with a film camera. The old 16 mm film shows the couple leaving the bride's parental home to get into the waiting limousine. The cameraman also panned the lens towards the various open windows. The film footage of the Van Kalken-Burger wedding contains the only surviving moving images of Anne Frank, leaning out of the window to watch the spectacle. The film footage of Anne Frank was used by British filmmaker Jon Blair in his documentary Anne Frank Remembered (1995).[3]
Footnotes
- ^ Anne Frank Stichting, Getuigenarchief, Verslag van interview met de heer van Kalken en mevrouw van Kalken-Burger door Wouter van der Sluis, 4 maart 1995.
- ^ De courant Het nieuws van den dag, 23 juli 1941 (via Delpher). Zie ook: Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Beeldbank, OSIM00007002646, Atletiek huwelijk.
- ^ Jon Blair (regie & prod.), Anne Frank remembered, London: The Jon Blair Film Company, 1995. De beelden zijn te zien op het YouTube-kanaal van het Anne Frank Huis. Anne Frank's only existing film images, YouTube, 23 september 2009.