Zadok Lam, at the time of his wedding working as warehouse keeper, was a son of Benedictus Lam and Duifje Dresden. He married Elisabeth van Zuiden from Hoogeveen on 23 May 1929 in Amsterdam, a daughter of Abraham van Zuiden and Bekke Regina Polak. The couple had a daughter in 1934: Dora Regina Lam.
Zadok, his wife Elisabeth (who has worked in the kitchen of the C.I.Z.) and daugher Dora have been registered in Camp Westerbork on 20 June 1943. Zadok had to stay in barack 60 but his wife and daughter in barack 65. According notes on the registration card of the Jewish Council of Zadok Lam, he and his family were “gesperrt” (safeguarded) from deportation for his function: he was an advertisement salesman for the Jewish Weekly and his former job was in the bookstore and ad-industry for the editors Joachimsthal. According further notes on his registration card, Joachimsthal editors have taken steps to safeguard Zadok Lam and his family from further deportation, which did not led to any result. Eventually Zadok, his wife and daughter were deported on 6 July 1943 to Sobibor and upon arrival there immediately killed on 9 July 1943.
Zadok 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. His sisters Saartje, Marianne, Mietje and Elisabeth, as also his brothers Samuel and Simon have been killed too during the Holocaust.
City archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Benedictus Lam, archive card of Zadok Lam; website www.wiewaswie.nl; file cabinet of the Jewisch Council, cards of Zadok Lam and his family and an addition of a visitor of the website.