Mietje van Gelder was a daughter of Leendert Joseph van Gelder and Henderina van Vriesland. She married Levie Smit in Amsterdam on 19 December 1912, a son of Willem Smit and Debora Wagenhuijzen.
Mietje van Gelder was born in a family with ten children; one brother died young, eight years old in 1888; most likely, three of her brothers have survived the war, however not her siblings Joseph Leendert, Philip, Sander Leendert, Bertha and Rozetta; they have been killed during the Holocaust.
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