Salomon alias Edmond van Dam was born on 22 July 1883 in Antwerp, Belgium, as one of eight children of the Dutch-Jewish couple Hijman Isaac van Dam and Sara Andriessen. Salomon studied to become a dentist and obtained his diploma in 1901. On 24 May 1933, Salomon van Dam married the non-Jewish Yvonne Flamme, who had been born in Woluwé-Saint-Lambert, Belgium, on 2 October 1904. The couple first lived ...