National Day of Remembrance of Guy Moke and his 26 comrades in France
National Day of Remembrance of Guy Moke and his 26 comrades in France is held on October 22. Guy Moke was a young French Communist. During the German occupation of France, World War II, in response to the attacks of the French Resistance against the Germans, he was taken hostage by the Nazis and executed. This event in the third decade of the month October is annual. 
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Guy Môquet, born April 26, 1924 in Paris and died October 22, 1941 in Châteaubriant (Loire-Inférieure), was a communist militant, famous for having been the youngest of the forty-eight hostages shot on October 22, 1941, in Châteaubriant , Nantes and Paris in retaliation after the death of Karl Hotz.
His name, more particularly associated with that of the twenty-seven executed at the Châteaubriant camp, has gone down in history as a symbol of the French heroes and martyrs of the German Occupation during the Second World War.
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