“The management of the memorial wanted the body of Missak Manouchian to rest symbolically at Mont-Valérien, in the same way that the body of Jean Moulin had rested at the Memorial of the Martyrs of the Deportation, before its entry into the Pantheon,” explains Jenna Massieux , the deputy director of the Mont-Valérien memorial, in Suresnes (Hauts-de-Seine), where a ceremony and a vigil are being organized, this Tuesday, February 20, on the eve of the pantheonization of the famous resistance fighter and his wife Mélinée.
There, in the clearing of the site, where Missak Manouchian and 21 other members of her group of foreign resistance fighters FTP-MOI (Francs-tireurs et partisans - Immigrant workforce) were shot, on February 21, 1944. Olga Bancic, the only woman in the Manouchian group, was guillotined in Germany.
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