Truemors
The Mallah family in Salonika
Sarkozy’s mother is from the Mallah family, which originally came from Spain like all Jews of Salonika, northern Greece, and left with the expulsion of the Jews by King Ferdinand. They settled initially in France.
About 100 years later the family immigrated to Salonika.
Sarkozy’s great grandfather, who died in 1913, was a well known jeweler in Salonika. His business was destroyed when a fire in 1917 destroyed almost the entire city of Salonika.
The grave of Mordohai Mallah exists till today at Stavroupoli where it was transferred from the old cemetery just before the Germans walked in during WWII and destroyed the Jewish cemetery.
Nicolas’s grandfather, Benedict, was the first child of seven children. His real name was Aaron but the family called him Benico. At the age of 14, Benico and his mother left for France where he studied medicine and served in the French army as a doctor during WWI, where he met his future wife Adel Bouvieux, a pretty nurse.
In order to marry her he was baptized Catholic and took the name Benedict.
The couple had two daughters, Suzanne and Andrée, the mother of Nicolas, who married in the 50s a Hungarian immigrant Paul Sarkozy, the father of Nicolas.
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