Elise Philips van Buren was a daughter of Frederik Philips van Buren and Nanny Herz. She was born in Bochum (Germany) but moved with her family, presumably in the early 19-twenties, to Amsterdam. Elise married there 28 March 1935 Karel Louis Leons, who moved those days from Den Haag to Amsterdam and who was a son of Salomon Leons and Dina Selina Wolf. However, this marriage ended in a divorce on…