Samuel Henri van Gelder was a son of Machiel van Gelder from Amsterdam and Sarah de Roos from Paris. On 6 November 1923 he married in Antwerpen the non-Jewish Maria Theresia Verelst. In 1927 they had a son Herman Henri van Gelder, who has survived the war. Also Samuel Henri's spouse survived the war.
Samuel Henri van Gelder has been deported however from Mechelen to Auschwitz with Convoy VIII, dep…