Elsje van Dam was the daughter of Maurits van Dam and Saartje Rozenvelt. There were nine children in this family: Israel (1866), Racheltje (1867), Hartog (1870-1942), Levie (1873), Phillipus (1875-1942), Elsje, Hendrina (1881-1942), Aron (1884-1942), and one child that survived the war.
Elsje van Dam was first married to Hermannus Wilhelm Spier, who died in 1929. Five years later she married Ger…