Միսաք Մանուշյանի ոգեղեն դիմանկարը
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translation: Misak Manushyan's spiritual portrait
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The book contains letters, memories about the national hero of France- Misak Manushyan. Also the message of the Catholicos of All Armenians Vazgen 1st and the President of France Zhiskar D'Esten. Misak Manushyan 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-Valerien on 21 February 1944. He is considered a hero of the French Resistance.
