Manouchian was born on 1 September 1906 in Adıyaman , in Mamuret-ul-Aziz Vilayet , Ottoman Empire into an Armenian peasant family . His parents were killed during the Armenian Genocide of 1915 , but he and his brother managed to survive . In the early 1920s he settled in an Armenian General Benevolent Union-run orphanage in Jounieh , Lebanon , then a French protectorate . He acquired education there and in 1925 moved to France
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Missak Manouchian