[HIGHLIGHTS] Missak Manouchian's entry into the Pantheon, a tribute to all foreign resistance fighters

Missak Manouchian will enter the Pantheon on Wednesday February 21, 80 years to the day after his execution by the Nazis. He was an orphan of the Armenian genocide, who immigrated to France with his brother Garabed in 1924.

In 1943, he became one of the leaders of the Francs-tireurs et partisans de la main-d'émigré (FTP-MOI), a communist resistance organization. “It’s a turning point in memory,” insists historian Denis Peschanski, scientific advisor to the collective that campaigned for entry.