On Saturday, 11 April 1942, at 7.00 PM, ten Jewish residents of Leeuwarden were arrested in retaliation for removing the sign 'No Jews allowed' from a public bench in the Vossepark. They were sent to the camp at Amersfoort. Samuel van Gelder was among them. He was married to Sara Willemmina van Gelder-Salomons. He and his wife lived at 61 Transvaalstraat in Leeuwarden.
S. de Jong, Joods leven in de Friese hoofdstad 1920-1945. Voltooid verleden tijd (Leeuwarden, 1970) 61-62, 124
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