Joseph Epstein, also known as Colonel Gilles and as Joseph Andrej, was a Polish-born Jewish communist activist and a French Resistance leader during World War II. He was executed by the Germans.
Place Joseph Epstein, Paris 20
Missak Manouchian was an Armenian poet and communist activist. A survivor of the 1915–1916 Armenian genocide, he moved to France from an orphanage in Lebanon in 1925. He was active in communist Armeni
Manouchian in the 1930s
The "Affiche Rouge" showing the group members and their "crimes", published by the Nazi and French police.
Portrait kept in the German Federal Archives and reproduced on the Affiche Rouge.
Rue du Groupe-Manouchian in the 20th arrondissement of Paris