John Adolph Robert van Gelderen

A memorial plaque listing the names of staff members who did not survive the war has been affixed in the former residence of the director of the Stoomweverij Nijverheid (part of the Van Gelderen family business) at 2 Nijverheidstraat in Enschede. Eight of those listed were Jews, including John Adolf Robert van Gelderen.
H. Hamburger and J.C. Regtien, Joodse oorlogsmonumenten in de provincie Overij…

The history of the mill-owner family Van Gelderen has been described in F. de Haan, Een eigen patroon. Geschiedenis van een joodse familie en haar bedrijven, ca. 1800-1964 (Amsterdam 2002).

We have been unable to determine whether one or more members of this family survived the war. While their names do not appear on the lists of survivors, we have not been able to trace them in In Memoriam eith…