Monica Abraham Sevianu

Monica Sevianu, Igor's wife and mother of two, had spent three years with her first husband in Israel but had returned to Romania in 1948 to marry Igor. She participated in a bank heist with her husband and four others.
Monica Sevianu survived the years of labor camp, was freed during the general amnesty of 1964, and immigrated to Israel in 1972, where she died five years later.

Irene Lusztig, Monica Sevianu's maternal granddaughter, provides her own retelling of the 1959 events. Although allegedly Solomon got the story from the then very young American filmmaker, whom he met in Bucharest at the end of the 1990s, while she was working on her documentary, he fails to acknowledge her, tout court.

The most revealing information is offered by Irene's mother Miki, who was 14 in 1959, and who was living at the time with her mother, Monica (Moni), and her second husband, Gugu Sevianu.

https://www.academia.edu/2644830/Re_RO_Re_enacted_scripts_in_and_ar...

Monica Sevianu, birth name Monique Alfandary, born in 1923.[4] A journalist, she had worked for the national radio station, but had been fired in 1957, the reason given being her lack of higher academic degrees.[1] After serving part of her life-time sentence, she was released in 1964 through an amnesty decree[1] for political crimes[citation needed] issued by Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. She emigrated to Israel in 1970 where she died in 1977.[1] She had already "made aliyah" once to British Mandate Palestine, where she had lived for three years until returning to Romania in 1948 and marrying Igor.[3]

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