Levie Pam, born 26 May 1869 in Amsterdam, was a son of Izaak Pam and Bloeme Sjouwerman. He married 17 May 1900 in Amsterdam the 40-year old Mina Zaligman from Diever, a daughter of Heiman Wolf Zaligman and Saartje Israël van Zuiden. The couple had two children, namely Bloeme and Sara. Both the daughters and their families werd killed during the Shoah.
Levie Pam was a vendor on street markets. Between 1923 and 1933 he had a standing place at Nieuwmarkt in Amsterdam where he sold his “manufactured merchandise” from Monday till Friday. In 1924 Levie Pam received a warning from the Division Street Markets of the Municipality of Amsterdam that “it was not allowed to leave someone else in his place”. In 1931 he received permission “to be assisted by his daughter for three months”, whereby he was first warned “that he was not allowed to let his assistant to sell”. This prohibition was changed in 1932 into “permission for his daughter to make sales too”. At the end of September 1933 Levie gave notice to the Division Street Markets and stopped as a market vendor at the Nieuwmarkt.
After his marriage in 1900, Levie and his wife Mina have lived at many different addresses in town, such as Zanddwarsstraat 20, Rechtboomsloot 9, 4 and 89, at Gelderschekade 121, at Nieuwmarkt 8 and 25 and per 12 Januari 1939 at Sarphatistraat 40. On 12 May they moved to Waalstraat 72 1st floor, which became at the same time their last known address in Amsterdam.
However, Mina Zaligman passed away there on 30 January 1942; she was interred 2 February 1942 in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen. Levie Pam thereafter married again on 9 October 1942 with Rebecca Swelheim, the widow of Maurice Mol, who passed away 23 May 1931 and who also was the mother-in-law of her daughter Sara. Till her marriage in October 1942 to Levie Pam, Rebecca Swelheim lived in with her daughter Sara and son-in-law Leon Mol in the Tweede Boerhaavestraat 70 1st floor.
Levie Pam and his 2nd spouse Rebecca Swelheim were taken to Westerbork on 27 November 1942 where they ended up in barrack 71 and in January 1943 in barrack 65. On 18 January 1943 both were put on transport to Auschwitz, together with another 746 other deportees. On arrival there on 21 January 1943 they were both inmmediately killed in the gas chambers.
Sources includes the City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Levie Pam, Mina Zaligman and Rebecca Swelheim; the market card of Levie Pam; website openarchieven.nl, wedding Levie Pam/Mina Zaligman and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Levie Pam and Rebecca Swelheim and the wikipedia website jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.