Meline Manouchian - Misak Manouchian. Through The Eyes of an Eyewitness

Meline Manouchian - Misak Manouchian. Through The Eyes of an Eyewitness

On February 21, 1944, the Nazis shot 22 members of the French Resistance in the Mont Valerien castle, not far from Paris. They remained in history as "Manouchian's group". This memoir of Misak Manouchian's wife and friend of the struggle, Meline, is a very personal testimony. Many events and details described in the book could not be told by anyone else with such accuracy and sensitivity. The book contains documents and letters (some never published), which help to see Manouchian in a new light. The hero of the resistance movement dreamed of remaining a poet and living with art and music. The group led by Misak Manouchian stood out for its actions in 1941-1943: murders of high-ranking Nazis, sabotage, disruption of trains transporting weapons and ammunition, failures of German military facilities. The book helps to imagine the "Armenian resistance" within the French movement, its roots, psychological and human characteristics. Meline and Misak, two orphans who survived the Genocide, along with many other Armenians, intellectuals, artists, who took refuge in France from all over the world, participated in the resistance of the country that gave them shelter and waged their struggle against evil and for dignity.

tags: Մելինե Մանուշյան - Միսաք Մանուշյան․ Ականատեսի աչքերով․ Անտիպ պոեզիա, նամականի, արխիվ, misaq manushyan, misak manushian, akanatesi achqerov