On February 21, 2024, Missak Manouchian accompanied by his wife Mélinée enters the Panthéon.

With this act, France pays tribute to all foreign resistance fighters. On this occasion, the Shoah Memorial presents to you 'Foreigners in the Resistance', an exhibition on the fight of foreigners for the Liberation of France.

With Missak Manouchian, accompanied by Mélinée, all the foreign resistance fighters will enter the Pantheon on February 21, 2024. Whether they are political refugees or economic immigrants, naturalized, or even born in France, these men and women, including many Jews, fought in metropolitan France but also in the colonies and abroad and played a crucial role in the Resistance against the Occupant and the Vichy regime.

To accompany this Pantheonization with a resolutely universalist dimension, the exhibition focuses on the Parisian FTP-MOI while extending it to various modalities of the resistance commitment of foreigners. Of various political movements, within the internal resistance as well as within free France, it is around the France of human rights, the France of the Enlightenment that these plural identities were combined.

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