Amelda Menouti was the mother of Ines Valda Cichinelli — the French Resistance survivor who later married Dr. John Lazare Jeannopoulos. Her maiden name was Menouti; she married Achilles Cichinelli and took his name. She died in her thirties from a heart ailment, presumably linked to earlier rheumatic fever — a familiar 20th-century story for someone who survived a childhood rheumatic illness only to die of mitral-valve or other rheumatic-heart-disease damage as an adult.
Her death broke the family. Achilles left after she died, leaving Ines to carry her own past largely alone — “She was very secretive about her past,” Aline would later write, “I believe her father left at that point. My impression was that she hated him.”
Her name surfaced in May 2026 through testimony from her granddaughter Aline. Almost everything else about her — exact dates, birthplace, her own parents — remains to be researched.