Emanuel van Gelder was a merchant. He and his wife lived at 14 J.W. Brouwersplein in Amsterdam. They had one child. At the time of their deportation, Emanuel van Gelder and his wife were robbed of several items of jewelry. The wife and child survived the war.
The archive of the Stichting Sieraden-Comité contains a statement of the right to inheritance from 1960 and a list of stolen items of jewelry.
NIOD, Records Stichting Sieraden-Comité, box 6HF, file 85
In addition, a Jokos file (number 1824) 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 3807/256).