Missak Manouchian ( Western ; , 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
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Missak Manouchian