Max van Dam was the son of Aron van Dam, the head of the SDAP branch in Winterswijk, and Johanna Leviticus. He was a painter. He studied at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp and elsewhere. In the Netherlands, he met established Jewish artists such as Fré Cohen. His work tended to have socialist and Zionist themes.
During the war, Max van Dam went into hiding. He tried to fle…