List of Famous people named Missak

Similar names: Masaaki, Masaki, Masako, Misaki, Misako. Here are some famous Missaks:

Missak Manouchian

First Name Missak

Born on September 1, 1906

Died on February 21, 1944 (aged 37)

Born in Adıyaman Province

Missak Manouchian was a French-Armenian poet and communist activist. An Armenian Genocide survivor, he moved to France from an orphanage in Lebanon in 1925. He was active in communist Armenian literary circles. During World War II, he became the military commissioner of FTP-MOI, a group consisting of European immigrants, including many Jews, in the Paris region which carried out assassinations and bombings of Nazi targets. According to one author, the Manouchian group was the most active French Resistance group. Manouchian and many of his comrades were arrested in November 1943 and executed by the Nazis in Fort Mont-Valérien on 21 February 1944. He is considered a hero of the French Resistance.

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Missak Kotchunian

First Name Missak

Born on September 16, 1863

Died on May 15, 1913 (aged 49)

Born in Syria, Aleppo Governorate

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