Simon Lam was a son of Benedictus Lam and Duifje Dresen. He was a vendor at the street market at Waterlooplein in Amsterdam, and according to his vendor permit from 1926 he sold smoker's requisites there from Monday till Friday. Simon was unmarried. According to his record from the File Cabinet of the Jewish Council of Amsterdam, he was deported as "Freiwillige" (voluntarily) on 31 August 1942 from a "Rijks Werk Kamp" (State Labor Camp) "Eastwards", (unnkown which camp this was). He lost his life at an unknown place in the Shoah. His official date of death is 1 March 1943.
Simon 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 Zadok have been killed too during the Holocaust..
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Simon Lam, family registration card of Benedictus Lam, File Cabinet of the Jewish Council of Amsterdam - record of Simon Lam, Memorial Centre Camp Westerbork, and an addition of a visitor of the website.