Marianne en Mietje Lam were daughters of Benedictus Lam and Duifje Dresden. Both were not married and lived together at Andreas Bonnstraat 12 in Amsterdam. Mietje was working as a vendor woman at the streetmarket at Ten Katestraat with dry- and piece goods from Monday to Friday and Marianna had a draper shop, however since march 1943 she was registered as seamstress.
Marianne and Mietje Lam were registered in Camp Westerbork on 17 July 1943 and had to stay in barack 67. According notes on the registration card of the Jewish Council of Marianne Lam, there has been tried to prove that they were “only” half-Jewish, trying to escape deportation, which had not led to success. On 20 July 1943 both sisters have been deported to Sobibor, where they upon arrival there have been killed immediately on 23 July 1943.
Marianne and Mietje Lam was born into a family with ten children. Two of them died in childhood; one brother left in 1912 to New York, aged 26 years. Her sisters Saartje and Elisabeth, as also her brothers Samuel and Zadok have been killed too during the Holocaust.
City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Benedictus Lam, archive cards of Marianne and Mietje Lam; file cabinet of the Jewish Council, cards of Marianne and Mietje Lam and an addition of a visitor of the website.