Salomon Lampie

Salomon Lampie was the eldest of the three children of Mozes Lampie and Bertha Cohen. He was born on 1 June 1916 in Amsterdam, he became a wallpaperer and upholsterer and he had a shop where beds and blankets were sold.

He married Betje van Kleef on 8 November 1939 in Amsterdam, a daughter of Isaac van Kleef and Lea van Praag. She was born in Amsterdam on 26 August 1917 and after their marriage t…

According to a list with shops of Jewish owners, compiled by the Amsterdam police in 1940, this family had a bedroom furniture shop, address Nieuwe Herengracht 51 in Amsterdam.
Abstracts of the police archives which are currently at the Amsterdam municipal archives

Jewish tradespeople such as bakers, hairdressers, butchers, fishmongers, grocers, etc. received a special exemption (Sperre), so that the Jewish population could continue to use the tradespeople. As the number of Jewish residents of Amsterdam shrank due to the deportations, these exemptions were cancelled. On July 27, 1942, Meijer de Vries, the General Adviser of the Jewish Council, sent a circula…