Simon Andries van Gelder

Eva de Leeuw, born on 10 August 1913, flower binder and eldest daughter of Hartog and Cato de Leeuw, married on 22 April 1936 in Amsterdam Simon Andries van Gelder, who was born on 21 June 1911 in Eibergen as a son of Abraham van Gelder and Rachel Frank. On 15 April 1937 Eva and Simon Andries had a little daughter, named Rachel.

After the marriage was concluded, the lived at first at Tugelaweg 15 …

In addition, a Jokos file (number 10536) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.The Jokos file reveals that a claim was lodged for compensation for valuables surrendered to the Lippmann-Rosenthal looting bank (L-claim, number 3848/3700).

Abraham van Gelder is twee maal getrouwd geweest. Uit zijn eerste huwelijk met Rachel Frank (Smilde 24-11-1883/Amsterdam 6-4-1935) had hij zes kinderen. Een overleefde de oorlog. Zijn tweede huwelijk was met Ganna Samelline Polak.

The mortuary book was kept by Stanisław Ryszler (no. 16439), a kapo of Leichenträger kommando. Leichentrager kommando was responsible for taking corpses of dead prisoners or prisoners killed in the camp hospital, prisoners shot against the Death Wall, prisoners hanged at the assembly square or prisoners who died in residual blocks to the mortuary located in the basement of Block 28.

The mortuary b…

The so-called Sterbebücher of Auschwitz includes nearly 69.000 official certificates of death, made out in the camp between July 1941 and December 1943.