Elisabeth Lam was a daughter of Benedictus Lam and Duifje Dresden. She married the commercial traveller from Antwerp, Nathan van Loon on 13 February 1930 in Amsterdam, a son of Salomon van Loon and Marianna Bonewit. The couple had three children: Salomon in 1931, Dora in 1933 and in Den Haag their son Benedictus was born in 1939. All the children and their parents have been killed during the Holocaust.
Between 3 and 5 October 1942 Elisabeth Lam, her husband Nathan and their children have been registered in Camp Westerbork where they stayed in barack 57 and 64. The second half of October all have been deported to Auschwitz, were Elisabeth, her son Salomon and daughter Dora were killed on 2 November 1942. Her son Benedictus however was already killed there on 19 October 1942 whilst her husband lost his life in Auschwitz on 31 January 1943.
Elisabeth 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, Marianne and Mietje, as also her brothers Samuel, Zadok and Simon have been killed too during the Holocaust.
City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Benedictus Lam; Municipal Archive of Den Haag, family registration card of Nathan van Loon; website www.wiewaswie.nl and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, cards of Elisabeth van Loon-Lam and her family and an addition of a visitor of the website.