Samuel Lam was a son of Benedictus Lam and Duifje Dresden. He was a vendor in in oddments and had a standing place at the streetmarket at Waterlooplein, for which he had received a permit in 1924 from the Amsterdam Municipality. He married 16 July 1913 Judith Vreeland in Amsterdam, a daughter of Machiel Vreeland and Sara Polak. The couple had six daughters; two of them have survived the Holocaust …