Sellie Eljon was the third husband of the diamond cutter Israël Koren, who was born on 28 March 1866 in Amsteram as a son of Isaac Salomon Koren and Brankie Waterman. Sellie was born on 23 December 1875 in Amsterdam as the daughter of Eliazer Jacob Eljon and Sophia Weltevreede and before her marriage she worked as a shop assistant.
Israël Koren was first married in Meppel on 24 December 1892 to Betje Polak, a daughter of Levie Polak and Jantje Abraham Kan. She was born on 22 September 1865 in Meppel and died on July 13, 1905 in Amsterdam. Israël and Betje had three children together, namely Isaac in 1893, Jansje in 1895 and Branca in 1898.
Their son Isaac Koren was married on 24 July 1919 to a non-Jewish woman from whom he was divorced on 14 January 1929. Isaac worked from 1922 as a diamond cutter in Antwerp, but after his return and divorce in Amsterdam, Isaac left for Cape Town in South Africa on 20 June 1929. Nothing else is known about him.
Their daughter Jansje Koren, born in Amsterdam on 7 January 1895, married a non-Jewish man in Nijmegen on May 4, 1934, from whom she was divorced there on 3 February 1941. Jansje lived between August 1938 and November 1939 at two addresses in Den Haag, at Van Neckstraat 51 and at Frankenstraat 90. She then moved to Amsterdam, where she lived from 27 November 1939 at Krammerstraat 54 1st floor. During the Shoah she was murdered in Auschwitz.
Their daughter Branca Koren was born on 13 June 1898 in Amsterdam. It appeared from information from visitors to the website that Branca Koren had a partner, but it is not clear from documents whether she was married or not. She lived in Zandvoort, among other places, but from October 1928 in Amsterdam in the Lomanstraat 60 upper house and between May 1931 and April 1941 in the Krammerstraat 38 hs. On 29 April 1941 she moved in with her sister Jansje, who lived at Krammerstraat 54 1st floor. She too was murdered in Auschwitz during the Shoah.
After the death of Betje Polak, Israël Koren remarried on 21 March 1906 in Arnhem Rosette Mozes who was born on 13 May 1867 but died in Amsterdam on 26 January 1920. She was interred then in the Jewish Cemetery of Muiderberg. It is not known whether any children were born from this marriage. Thereafter, on 29 July1920, Israël Koren married the third time to Sellie Eljon. However, on 3 October 1937, Israël Koren passed away in Amsterdam and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery of Muiderberg.
On 20 March 1940, the widow of Israël Koren, Sellie Eljon, remarried in Amsterdam the widower of Sara Stodel, Mozes Stibbe and after the marriage was concluded they moved into a house at Rustenburgerstraat 52 1st floor in Amsterdam. On 13 April 1943 they were both arrested and carried off to Westerbork, from where they were deported to Sobibor on 20 April and immediately murdered in the gas chambers upon arrival there on 23 April 1943.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of Israël Koren and Isaac Koren; archive cards of Sellie Eljon, Jansje Koren and Branca Koren; the Municipal Archive of Den Haag, family registration cards of Reijnier Hubertus van de Vijver and Jansje Koren; website wiewaswie.nl/wedding Israël Koren/Betje Polak, marriage and divorce of Isaac Koren/Johanna Hendrika Huijboom; website het stenenarchief.nl/Grave of Israël Koren and Rosette Mozes; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Sellie Stibbe-Eljon, Mozes Stibbe, Jansje Koren and Branca Koren and additions of visitors of the website.