Haypost issues new postage stamp dedicated to Missak Manouchian

YEREVAN, May 26. / ARKA /. Armenia’s national postal operator Haypost CJSC has cancelled and put into circulation today a new stamp dedicated to the Armenian poet, French Resistance fighter and a national hero of France Missak Manouchian.

The stamp's official cancellation ceremony was hosted by HayPost’s newly built technologies development and training center. The cancellation was carried out by French ambassador e to Armenia Jean-François Charpentier, Armenian deputy minister of transport and communication Gagik Tadevosyan, deputy foreign minister Karen Nazaryan, the chairman of the Union of Philatelists of Armenia Hovik Musayelyan and Haypost Trust Management BV Managing Director Juan Pablo Gechidjian.

The postage stamp depicts Missak Manouchian at the background of The Arc de Triomphe in Paris, the “Red poster” (l'Affiche Rouge), the Eternal flame and a fragment of a letter addressed to his wife Meline Manouchian.

The "Red poster", depicting the portrait of Missak Manouchian and his friends, was distributed by the fascist army in order to detect the underground activists.

The Embassy of Armenia in France provided a great contribution to the proccess of creation of this stamp.

Missak Manouchian was born in 1906 in the Armenian village Adiyaman of Western Armenia. Losing his parents during the Armenian Genocide of 1915, he found himself in the French orphanage in Syria, where he studied French and got acquainted with the French culture. Moving to France in 1925, he started his activity by uniting the Armenians around him, publishing literary magazines, not being apart from the events taking place in France.

After the occupation of France by the Nazi troops Manouchian founded the International group of French Resistance movement, but he was arrested together with his group 1943 and three months later they were executed. Manouchian was only 37 years old. -0-

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11:01 05/27/2015