He joined the General Confederation of Labour ( Confédération Générale du Travail, CGT), a national association of trade unions which was the first of the five major French confederations. During this period he was self-educated and often visited libraries in the Latin Quarter. Įventually, Manouchian settled in Paris, where he took a job as a lathe operator at a Citroën plant. He acquired education there and in 1925 moved to France. In the early 1920s he settled in an Armenian General Benevolent Union-run orphanage in Jounieh, Lebanon, then a French protectorate. His parents were killed during the Armenian Genocide of 1915, but he and his brother managed to survive. Manouchian was born on 1 September 1906 in Adıyaman, in Mamuret-ul-Aziz Vilayet, Ottoman Empire into an Armenian peasant family. He is a considered hero of the French Resistance Manouchian and many of his comrades were arrested in November 1943 and executed by the Nazis in Fort Mont-Valérien on 21 February 1944.
According to one author, the Manouchian group was the most active French Resistance group. 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. He was active in communist Armenian literary circles. An Armenian Genocide survivor, he moved to France from an orphanage in Lebanon in 1925. Missak Manouchian ( Western Armenian: Միսաք Մանուշեան pronounced, 1 September 1906 – 21 February 1944) was a French-Armenian poet and communist activist.
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