Rika van Gelder

Rika van Gelder was a daughter of Alex van Gelder and Eva Lievendag. She was born in 1922 in Borne as youngest of four children. Two brothers, David Salomon and Samuel have survived the Holocaust. Her elder sister Roosje has been killed in Auschwitz, together with her parents and she herself.

Rika van Gelder lived at home with her parents at Deldenerstraat 29 in Hengelo (O), who later have moved t…

Alex van Gelder, a son of David Salomon van Gelder and of Sara van Wije, married 26 September 1905 in Borne to Eva Lievendag, a daughter of Salomon Lievendag and Rozetta Sleisner. The couple had four children, namely David Salomon in 1906, Roosje in December 1907, Samuel in 1914 and Rika in 1922. David Salomon and Samuel survived the Holocaust but Roosje and Rika – both unmarried – were killed in …