Overview
- Description
- 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.
- Date
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inclusive:
circa 1930-1999
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Alex Mevorah
- Collection Creator
- Elias Sevillia
Markos Mevorah - Biography
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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).
Physical Details
- Language
- Greek
- Genre/Form
- Photographs. Correspondence.
- Extent
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7 folders
- 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
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The donor, source institution, or a third party has asserted copyright over some or all of the material(s) in this collection. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust survivors--Greece.
- Geographic Name
- Athens (Greece) Komotēnē (Greece)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2020 by Alex Mevorah, grandson of Markos Mevorah and Lea Sevillia-Mevorah.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-04-25 08:31:17
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