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It will be official on Sunday June 18, on the sidelines of the call ceremony on June 18 at Mont-Valérien (Hauts-de-Seine). Missak Manouchian, a great figure in the Resistance, shot in 1944 with his 22 comrades, will enter the Pantheon. A look back at the story of this Armenian hero of the French Resistance.
This is one of the rare animated images of him, Missak Manouchian, before his execution. The leader and his network of resistance fighters, foreigners and communists like him, executed at Mont-Valérien (Hauts-de-Seine), on February 21, 1944. “There are people who were foreigners, who were not French by blood received, but who became French by blood shed, and who were in love with this land, its values, and who fought for their sustainability.“, says Katia Guiragossian, grand-niece of Missak Manouchian.
Mention “Death for France“to all resistance fighters and foreign hostages
Missak Manouchian became a hero of the Resistance in the 1940s. The man to be killed, for the Nazis, with this famous red poster plastered on the walls. The propaganda is in full swing. Manouchian at the Pantheon is also France honoring a survivor of the Armenian genocide, like his wife Mélinée, who will be buried alongside her husband. A tribute from the Republic, which has also decided to grant the mention “Death for France“to all resistance fighters and foreign hostages, which was not systematic until now.