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Sep 01, 1906 Adıyaman, Turkey Died on 21 Feb 1944 (aged 37)
French resistance fighter and poet
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About Missak Manouchian
- For the Manouchian Group, see FTP-MOI Missak Manouchian (Western Armenian: ????? ?????????; pronounced [mis?k? manu?j?n], 1 September 1906 – 21 February 1944) 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.
