DRAPER GOODS I.VAN DAM CLOTHING. That is to read above the door of the store of Izaak van Dam in Zuidlaren. In the shopdoor are standing Izaak van Dam, his wife Eva Nathans, his niece Betje Polak, emloyee and an unmarried daughter of Eva's sister Aaltje and her husband Philip Polak and an unknown woman, presumably also an employee. Photo made about 1925.
Izaak van Dam was a son of Simon van Dam and Martha Rosenbaum. He married Eva Nathans in Haren (Groningen) on 3 September 1919, a daughter of Simon Nathans and Betje de Jong. Izaak and Eva had five children together of whom two children died in infancy before the war, not older than 2 years. His oth…
Izaäk van Dam was married to Eva Nathans. The couple had three sons, Martijn Bertus, Siemon Machiel and Bernard Max. They owned a textile goods shop at 42 Stationsweg in Zuidlaren. The two eldest sons, Martijn Bertus and Siemon Machiel, worked in the shop and peddled textiles to farmers. Betje Polak…