Missak Manouchian, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Missak Manouchian

French resistance fighter and poet

Date of Birth: 01-Sep-1906

Place of Birth: Adıyaman, Turkey

Date of Death: 21-Feb-1944

Profession: poet, politician, resistance fighter, journalist, trade unionist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

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.