The Importance of Paris-based Zhoghovurd (People) Daily Newspaper in Researching the Armenian Diaspora's Involvement in the French Resistance (1941–1945)
Teteyan, Arshaluys · 2025
Armenian participation in the French Resistance is usually reduced to Missak Manouchian and his group, but the wider Armenian diaspora in France, largely composed of survivors of 1915, wrote many chapters of Resistance history that remain unknown. The article argues that Armenian-language newspapers published in France during and after the war are a major untapped source, focusing on Zhoghovurd, issued in Paris under editor Shahe Tatourian from 1943 to 1948. Its pages carry eyewitness and participant testimony in three groups: memoirs of Armenian Resistance fighters and their fallen comrades; data on the numbers, biographies, and commemorations of Armenian combatants; and reports on Armenians returning from Nazi death camps and the community's efforts to rehabilitate former prisoners.
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Teteyan, Arshaluys 2025. The Importance of Paris-based Zhoghovurd (People) Daily Newspaper in Researching the Armenian Diaspora's Involvement in the French Resistance (1941–1945). Հայագիտության հարցեր / Armenological Issues, Vol. 2, No. 1(29), pp. 47–56 (YSU Institute for Armenian Studies); DOI 10.46991/ai.2025.1.29.003. https://doi.org/10.46991/ai.2025.1.29.003
What this offers a reader
A model of how to mine the diaspora press as a historical archive; good for source-criticism assignments.
Peer-reviewed; opens a substantial untapped periodical source for Armenian-French wartime history.
Survivors of one genocide took up arms against another regime, and our own newspapers recorded it.
Beyond Manouchian: the Armenians of France in the Resistance, told through their own newspaper.
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