Biography

About Judith van Gelder

Judith van Gelder was a daughter from the 1st marriage of Jacob Juda van Gelder and Sophie Mendes. She married Samuel Kropveld on 2 February 1921 in Amsterdam, a son of Izak Kropveld and Esther Grobfeld. The couple had four daughters: Esther, Sophia, Carolina and Jacoba, who all have been killed in the Shoah.

City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Jacob Juda van Gelder, Samuel Kropveld and website www.wiewaswie.nl and Historical Centre Overijssel, death certificate of Judith van Gelder, nr. 79 from 16 June 1951, made out in Zwolle.