Werner Benno van Gelder

Werner Benno van Gelder was the youngest of the three children of Leizer van Gelder and Johanna an Gelder and was born 7 December 1909 in Essen in Germany. He had another brother Rudolf Ludwig and a sister Irma Friederike. Werner and his sibs have lost their lives during the Shoah; his mother passed away in 1939 and his father survived the Holocaust and died in 1957 in Rotterdam.

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The Maastricht police commissioner requested that Werner Benno van Gelder, residing in Maastricht, be located, detained and brought to trial. He had left his place of residence without the required authorization. This description referred to Jews who had gone into hiding.
Algemeen Politieblad, nr 37, 17 September 1942, 1044, notice 1931