Missak Manouchian
Missak Manouchian
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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Date of Birth
September 1st, 1906
Age
118
Birth Place
Adıyaman Province
Date of Death
February 21st, 1944
Died Aged
37
Star Sign
Virgo
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