Sevillia and Mevorah families papers

Identifier
irn715012
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2020.282.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Greek
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folders

7

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Elias Sevillia (1905-1979) was born in 1905 to Leon Sevillia (1862-1924) and Eloisa Weinberg (1880-1929). He had nine siblings: Daniel (1897-1920), Pinhas (b. 1899), Errikos (b. 1901), Rosa (b. 1903), Moses (b. 1908), Victoria (b. 1910), Sara (b. 1914), Esther (b. 1918), and Leah (b. 1921). He married Martha Meyer (1910-2000) and they had three children: Leon, Daniel, and Aliza (Aliza Gerstein). His family survived the Italian and German occupations of Athens. His brother Errikos was deported from Athens to Haidari and then Auschwitz-Birkenau. He survived several subsequent camps and was liberated by the Soviet Red Army. Elias and his family immigrated to the United States after the war and settled in Minnesota, MN.

Markos Mevorah was born in 1917 in Alexandroupolis, Greece to Siniorou Mevorah (1877-1943) and Samuel Mevorah (1870-1943). He had one brother, Raphael Mevorah (1915-1943), and one sister, Virginia Mevorah (1910-1943). The family lived in Komotini, Greece. During the Greco-Italian War (1940-1941) Markos lost one of his legs to frostbite, and had a prosthetic. He survived the Holocaust living in Athens under the false-identity of Markos Papadimitrioy. Markos’ parents and siblings all perished at Treblinka. Markos met Eleonara Lea Sevilla (b. 1921) while he was recovering in the hospital and they married after the war. They had two children, Raphael (b. 1948) and Virginia (Virginia Behar, b. 1950).

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Alex Mevorah

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2020 by Alex Mevorah, grandson of Markos Mevorah and Lea Sevillia-Mevorah.

Scope and Content

The collection documents the Holocaust-era history of the Sevillia and Mevorah families of Athens and Komotini, Greece. Documents include pension and medical disability records of Markos Mevorah, identification cards of Markos and his wife Eleonara Mevorah (née Sevillia), and postwar correspondence of Elonara’s brother Elias Sevillia. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs depicting the Mevorah and Sevillia families in Greece before, during, and after the Holocaust.

System of Arrangement

The collection is arranged as a single series. Folder 1 of 7. Mevorah, Markos and Eleonara: Identification cards, 1949-1971 Folder 2 of 7. Mevorah, Markos: Medical disability and pension records, 1941-circa 1960 Folder 3 of 7. Sevillia, Elias: Correspondence, 1963-1990 Folder 4 of 7. Photographs: Mevorah, Markos and Eleonara, circa 1930-1999 Folder 5 of 7. Photographs: Sevillia, Elias, circa 1940-circa 1975 Folder 6-7 of 7. Photographs: Sevillia and Mevorah families, circa 1930-1984

Subjects

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.