In his last letter to his widow, Mélinée, Manouchian said that he forgave everyone except "the one who betrayed us to save his skin and those who sold us." "There was consensus that they were betrayed by one of their number, Joseph Davidovitch (fr), who was arrested and tortured by the Nazis (before being released and shot by the Resistance). But some survivors also felt the French Communist Party had sacrificed the unit by refusing to smuggle vital Jewish combatants out of Paris after the French police began to tail them."