Jacob van Gelder was married. He and his wife had two children. The family lived in Voorburg. Jacob van Gelder was deputy manager at a limited liability company. Because he refused to work for the Nazis, he was arrested in Voorburg on 27 April 1944 and deported from the prison in Scheveningen via Westerbork.
NIOD, Erelijst Verzet en Koopvaardij, database made by J.W. de Leeuw;
B. Braber, Zelfs als wij zullen verliezen. Joden in verzet en illegaliteit in Nederland 1940-1945 (Amsterdam, 1990) 146-147
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