Amstel 3 Amsterdam
Under the watchful eye of those involved and mayor Femke Halsema, the 999th and 1,000th Stolpersteine were placed on 17-12-2021, a stone's throw from the Stopera. It is a tribute to Louis Lamm (1871-1943) and his daughter Ruth Fanny Lamm (1911-1943) who lived in their house on Amstel 3 until their death. The house is no longer there, but on the spot where they once lived. lived, the two Stolpersteine are a lasting memory of these Amsterdammers who were murdered in 1943 in Auschwitz concentration camp. Louis Lamm was a German bookseller, antique dealer and publisher of the Jewish faith.
In 1933 Lamm emigrated to Amsterdam and continued his antiquarian bookshop in Amstel 3. Louis Lamm lived here with his family. The Dutch photographer Cas Oorthuys also lived in the building. After the occupation by the Germans, Louis Lamm was imprisoned in the Westerbork transit camp from August 1943. On November 16, 1943, he was deported with his daughter Ruth Fanny to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he and his daughter were murdered on November 19, 1943. His wife died in Amsterdam in 1940 and their two other children, Hannah and Heinrich Ismar, survived the war and fled to Palestine. Fenna and Frank Oorthuys, the children of Cas Oorthuys, have applied for the Stolpersteine for Louis and Ruth Fanny Lamm.
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