Levie van Dam, a dealer in second hand goods, was a son of Herman van Dam and Alida Cohen. On 30 March 1910 he married in Rotterdam Duifje van der Sluis, a daughter of Enoch van der Sluis and Hester van Wittene. The couple had eleven children in total. Four of them have died at a very young age. According to data from his family registration card, his son Herman presumably have fallen in action in Spain in the 1930’s. Three of his children, namely Hester, Dina and Heiman might have survived the war but three children, Maurits, Sibilla and Hartog werd killed in the Shoah.
The marriage of Levie van Dam and Duifje van der Sluis did not last and ended in a divorce on 4 January 1936. On 25 November 1936, Levie van Dam married for the second time the non-Jewish Cornelia Johanna Louwerina de Winter, 43 years old, daughter of Kornelis de Winter and Johanna de Jeu.
Levie van Dam passed away in Rotterdam on 11 December 1941 and the funeral records at the Jewish cemetery in Rotterdam reveal that Levie van Dam was buried there.
City archive of Rotterdam, family registration cards of Levie van Dam.