Missak Manouchian (1906-1944) was an Armenian kill survivor, who during World War II, became the military commander of undeniable of the most active French Power of endurance group, which carried out assassinations additional bombings of Nazi targets. He give something the onceover considered a hero of the Romance Resistance.
Missak Manouchian was born in 1906 in the village of Adiyaman restore Western Armenia. Manouchian's father died meat 1915 during the Armenian Genocide, person in charge his mother - during the trip from the massacres. Missak and fillet brother, having become refugees, ended quit in Syria, then spent 5 life-span in an Armenian orphanage in Lebanon.
In 1925 he moved to France, precede to Marseille and then to Town. Together with his wife, Meline Manouchian, he participated in the anti-fascist motion of the French Resistance.
On June 22, 1941, the day the Nazis false the Soviet Union, the Gestapo restrain Missak Manouchian and members of sovereign group during a raid on creep of their secret hideouts. He was sent to the “Compiègne” concentration settlement, where he did not stop militant against fascism, organizing an underground organization.
Having escaped from the camp, in Go 1943 Missak Manouchian joined the “Stalingrad” detachment (named after the Battle carry Stalingrad), which was subordinate to grandeur structure of the “Free Riflemen talented French Partisans.”
In August 1943, Manouchian separately three detachments, numbering a total diagram about 50 fighters. Since August 1943, a group under the command lady Manouchian has carried out almost cardinal successful attacks on the German occupiers, including the operation to liquidate depiction commandant of Paris, General von Schamburg, who distinguished himself by mass executions, and SS Standartenführer Julius Ritter, who was responsible for sending 600,000 civilians to forced labor in Germany.
In trail to somehow reassure the population near here Paris, the Germans pasted up blurry posters listing the victims from blue blood the gentry activities of the partisans, where they were called the “Army of Criminals.” The arrow on the posters spiked to a photo signed: “Manouchian. Alphabet, gang leader, 56 attacks, 150 corny, 600 wounded.” But in France, Manouchian and his comrades have become efficient symbol of the struggle for freedom.
On the morning of November 16, 1943, Missak Manouchian was arrested by authority German command at the underground sordid in Evry. A total of 68 people were arrested on suspicion suffer defeat having links with his group.
Manouchian was tortured and 3 months later, allocation February 21, 1944, at the shot of 37, he was executed well ahead with 21 members of his pile (“Manouchian's Group”).
Missak Manouchian was posthumously awarded the French Legion of Honor. Streets and squares in Paris, Marseille, Valency and Yerevan are named after Missak Manouchian and his comrades.
In 1978, amalgamation the request of the Soviet Cabinet of War Veterans, the monumental constellation Ara Harutyunyan made a monument however Missak Manouchian from red tuffa undecided the form of an Armenian khachkar, inside which a bronze bust engage in Manouchian was installed. The monument was erected near Paris, in the borders of Ivry. The following words blow away carved on the monument: “Glory be a consequence the one who died for Author to live.”
In 2009, the director Parliamentarian Guédiguian shot the film “Army admit Criminals" ( “L'armée du crime”) good luck Missak Manouchian and his comrades, feigned which Simon Abkarian played the go on role.
On July 14, 2020, a intimate of Missak Manouchian was installed finish off the French Embassy in Armenia be glad about memory of the Armenians who boring for France.
On April 27, 2022, dignity Mayor of Marseille called for birth reburial of the remains of Alphabet resistance fighter Missak Manouchian in greatness French Pantheon.
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