Mozes Pam was a son of Machiel Pam and Mietje Sarluij. He was born in Amsterdam on 16 March 1875 and worked as warehouse clerk. He also operated as merchant/dealer, among others in haberdasheries. On 24 January 1906 he married Esther Root in Amsterdam, born 4 October 1876 in Paramaribo as daughter of Mozes Root from Amsterdam and Leentje Frank from Utrecht. Esther’s parents were married in 1875 in Paramaribo but returned with their family, among them also Esther, in 1891 in the Netherlands. The Pam-Root couple had no children.
The health of Mozes’spouse was not optimal; in the years of 1920 Esther has been hospitalized several times, like in the psychiatric hospital “Duin en Bosch” in Castricum. She stayed twice in the “Apeldoornsche Bosch” the Central Israelitic Psychiatric Hospital in Apeldoorn: from 13 December 1921 till 21 June 1922 and from 14 October 1922 till 4 November 1924.
After being discharged Mozes and Esther moved to Haarlem, from where they returned to Amsterdam in December 1931. They then lived in the Lepelstraat 20. Via Meerhuizenplein and Jodenbreestraat, they ended up in January 1935 in the Zandstraat 5a, where Esther Pam-Root has died 24 September 1937. She was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen.
Mozes Pam, now widower, remained living in the Zandstraat, till he moved in September 1941 to Zwanenburgwal 7b parterre. On 9 February 1943 he was arrested and carried off to Westerbork, from where he was deported to Auschwitz on 16 February. On arrival there, Mozes Pam was immediately killed on 19 February 1943.
Sources include City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cares of Mozes Pam and Mozes Root, archive card of Mozes Pam; Wikipedia website Duin and Bosch; website hetstenenarchief.nl/grave Esther Pam-Root; the Coda archives of Apeldoorn and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Mozes Pam.