Missak Manouchian | |
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Born | |
Died | 21 February 1944 | (aged 34)
Cause of death | Execution by firing squad |
Resting place | Ivry Cemetery, Ivry-sur-Seine[1] |
Other names | Michel Manouchian (francized)[2][3] |
Occupation(s) | Trade unionist, poet,[4] translator, political activist |
Organization | FTP-MOI |
Political party | French Communist Party (from 1934)[5] |
Movement | Labour movement, Anti-fascism, French Resistance |
Spouse | Mélinée (née Assadourian) |
Signature | |
Missak Manouchian (Armenian: Միսաք Մանուշեան; pronounced [misɑkʰ manuʃjɑn], 1 September 1909 – 21 February 1944) was a French-Armenian poet and communist activist. A survivor of the 1915–1916 Armenian genocide, he moved to France from an orphanage in Lebanon in 1925.[6] He was active in communist Armenian literary circles.[7] During World War II, he became the military commissioner of FTP-MOI, a group consisting of European immigrants, including many Jews,[8][9] in the Paris Region which carried out assassinations and bombings of Nazi targets.[8] According to one author, the Manouchian group was the most active one of the French Resistance.[10] Manouchian and many of his comrades were arrested in November 1943 and executed by the Nazis at Fort Mont-Valérien on 21 February 1944. He is considered a hero of the French Resistance and was entombed in the Panthéon in Paris.[11][12][13]
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