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Gordon/Moshe Gershon Kahn (Kahan)

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Birthplace: Sziget, Hungary, Sziget/Sighetu Marmatiei, Maramaros/Maramures, Hungary/Romania
Death: December 31, 1962 (61)
Manchester, NH
Place of Burial: Sighetu Marmației, Sighetu Marmatiei, Maramureș County, Romania
Immediate Family:

Son of Henry Henrik Chaim Kahn and Zlata (Lottie) Kahn
Husband of Barbara Esther Kahn
Father of Private and Private
Brother of Deborah Kahan; Benjamin Kahn; Abraham Leib / Louis Kahn; Lillian Neumann (Kahn); Esther Glassman and 1 other

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About Gordon Kahn

In October 1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) opened its hearing into Communist influence in the movie business and promptly denounced 19 prominent directors, producers, screenwriters, and actors as enemies of the state. One of them was Hollywood screenwriter Gordon Kahn, whose films include All Quiet on the Western Front and The African Queen. He is the author of Hollywood on Trial (Boni & Gaer, 1949), which chronicled this disgraceful episode in American history.

Gordon Kahn's son, Morning Stories producer Tony Kahn, produced and wrote a six-part personal history of the Hollywood Blacklist, that tells the story of his father's 15 years of persecution and the fear that followed him, his family, and thousands of other Americans for being accused of having "the wrong political ideas." http://www.wgbh.org/article/?item_id=3625029

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Gordon Kahn's Timeline

1901
May 11, 1901
Sziget, Hungary, Sziget/Sighetu Marmatiei, Maramaros/Maramures, Hungary/Romania
1962
December 31, 1962
Age 61
Manchester, NH
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Sighetu Marmației, Sighetu Marmatiei, Maramureș County, Romania