Lela A. Mevorah (17 January 1898 – 13 November 1972)[1] was a Serbian librarian and head of the Central Medical Library at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Medicine.
Her brother Moše, then a lieutenant colonel in the Royal Yugoslav Army, was captured in 1941 and interned in a German POW camp, where he painted portraits of over 600 fellow prisoners.
In 1943, following Mussolini's death, the prisoners at Ferramonti di Tarsia were released, and Mevorah spent the rest of the war in Asti before returning to Serbia.
[1] The books of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Medicine were destroyed in the April 1941 Nazi bombing of the city.
Materials for the new Library initially came from books liberated from the Germans by the National Liberation Army and donors including the United Jugoslav Fund from America, the World Health Organization, the British Council, the American Library in Belgrade, the embassy of France, and French scientists.