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Missak Manouchian
1909–1944
- Nationality
- Ottoman Empire
- Occupation
- poet
Missak Manouchian (Armenian: ÕÕ«Õ½Õ¡Ö ÕÕ¡Õ¶Õ¸ÖÕ·Õ¥Õ¡Õ¶; pronounced [misÉkÊ° manuÊjÉn], 1 September 1909 â 21 February 1944) was an Armenian poet and communist activist.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Maison d'arrêt de FresnesDates unknown
- Compiègne-Royallieu concentration campDates unknown
- Maison d'arrêt de la SantéDates unknown
Biography
Missak Manouchian (Armenian: ÕÕ«Õ½Õ¡Ö ÕÕ¡Õ¶Õ¸ÖÕ·Õ¥Õ¡Õ¶; pronounced [misÉkÊ° manuÊjÉn], 1 September 1909 â 21 February 1944) was an Armenian poet and communist activist. A survivor of the 1915â1916 Armenian genocide, 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 one of the French Resistance. 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.
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