Richard Brody on Mosco Boucault’s documentary “Terrorists in Retirement,” about the Manouchian Group, a French Resistance group that included many Jewish Communists.
The activists in question were members of the so-called Manouchian Group, named for one of its leaders, the Armenian poet Missak Manouchian. The group’s official name was Francs-tireurs et Partisans—Main-d’œuvre Immigrée , which means Irregulars and Partisans—Immigrant Workforce. It operated under the aegis of the Communist Party and, as the full name suggests, was made up of foreign-born residents of France, principally Jews from Eastern Europe, Armenians, and Italians.
For another mission, conducted with Lemberger, he diagrams—in tailor’s chalk, on a piece of fabric—the street where the attack was to occur. Then, on this street, near the Place de la Madeleine, they act out their meeting with a female associate bearing a bomb and a gun in her bag. Lemberger takes the bomb and throws it at his German targets; Mitzflicker, taking the gun, reënacts shooting a guard, and the pair demonstrate how they fled—narrowly escaping the gunfire of their pursuers.
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