Missak Manouchian at Sainte-Anne-d'Auray, 1939

Missak Manouchian, a survivor of the Armenian Genocide, poet and hero of the French Resistance, in front of the basilica of Sainte-Anne-d'Auray, December 1939. Missak was executed by the Nazis on 21 February 1944.

In the photograph Manouchian wears military uniform with a long greatcoat and a military cap, and has a pipe in his mouth. Behind him rises a large church with a tall bell tower.