WebTalks
Mélinée Manouchian: A Life of Resistance and Remembrance
Astrig Atamian
Genocide orphan Mélinée Sukiémian arrived in France in the 1920’s. A brilliant, rebellious student, she engaged at an early
Mélinée Manouchian: A Life of Resistance and Remembrance
Genocide orphan Mélinée Sukiémian arrived in France in the 1920’s. A brilliant, rebellious student, she engaged at an early age as an activist in Paris, committed to support Soviet Armenia and guided by the universal values of liberty and equality. In this WebTalk, historian Astrig Atamian recounts Mélinée’s life journey marked by her profound aspiration for justice, her struggle as a woman in the Resistance against the Nazis in occupied France, and her life-long effort to preserve the memory of her husband, the poet and hero Missak Manouchian.