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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Germaine_TillionGermaine Tillion - Wikipedia

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   Germaine Tillion (30 May 1907 – 18 April 2008) was a French ethnologist, known for her work in Algeria in the 1950s on behalf of the Government of France. A member of the French Resistance in World War II , she spent time in Ravensbrück concentration camp .

2. languagecollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk › 2024 › 10Ravensbrück (1946), Germaine Tillion and Jeannette L’Herminier

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   Oct 21, 2024 · While in Ravensbrück, Germaine Tillion worked to gather evidence about life and death in the camp, including scientific experiments on co-detainees, and analysed the economic exploitation of the prisoners in the concentration camp system.

3. academic.oup.com › hwj › article-abstractRe-viewing The Battle of Algiers with Germaine Tillion

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   Oct 1, 2005 · In July and August 1957, Yacef Saâdi, the nationalist leader in Algiers and a motivating force behind Gillo Pontecorvo's film, met secretly with the French ethnologist and Resistance heroine Germaine Tillion. This essay explores the relation established between the Gaullist Tillion and Yacef.

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   • Publish Year: 2005

4. www.museedelhomme.fr › en › germaine-tillion-1907-2008Germaine Tillion (1907-2008 - Musée de l'Homme

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   Interred at the Panthéon on 27 May 2015, Germaine Tillion was an ethnologist at the Musée de l’Homme and a pioneer of the French Resistance.

5. guides.loc.gov › french-resistance-world-war-twoFrance in WW II: The French Resistance - Library of Congress

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   Aug 30, 2024 · This major historical document is supplemented by three additional accounts of subsequent events. "First Resistance," by Germaine Tillion, who was arrested in 1942 and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp for the duration of the war, depicts the formation of the Groupe du Musée de l'Homme.

6. www.nytimes.com › 25 › worldGermaine Tillion, French Anthropologist and Resistance Figure ...

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   Apr 25, 2008 · April 25, 2008. Germaine Tillion, a major figure in contemporary French thought who used experiences studying peasants on the edge of the Sahara, fighting Nazis and surviving a concentration camp...

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   Who was Germaine Tillion?

   • Germaine Tillion (30 May 1907 – 18 April 2008) was a French ethnologist, known for her work in Algeria in the 1950s on behalf of the Government of France. A member of the French Resistance in World War II, she spent time in Ravensbrück concentration camp. Tillion was born on May 30, 1907, in Allegre (Haute-Loire) in south-central France.

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   Why did Germaine Tillion join the Musée de l'Homme network?

   • Beginning in 1945, Germaine Tillion began administrative procedures relating to the Musée de l’Homme network to obtain medals and military pensions for the resistance fighters as voluntary combatants. She registered the group under the name “Musée de l’Homme Network-Hauet-Vildé” in 1946 in honour of the martyrs of the Musée de l’Homme.

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   What happened to Germain Tillion?

   • After that, Germain Tillion took over. Betrayed by the priest Robert Alesch, she too was arrested on 13 August 1942, held in solitary confinement at the Santé prison and transferred two months later to Fresnes. During her incarceration, she managed to take notes and never ceased to imagine ways to enter into communication with her camrades.

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   Why was Germaine Tillion deported?

   • On 23 October 1943, Germaine Tillion was deported under the NN directive (Nacht und Nebel, Night and fog: people accused of sabotage and resistance representing a danger to German security and condemned to disappear without a trace) to Ravensbrück where she spent a year and a half in captivity.

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   When did Germaine Tillion become a stage performer?

   • Germaine Tillion finally agreed to a stage production, performed at the Théâtre du Châtelet in 2007.

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   Why did Tillion return to Algeria in 1954?

   • Tillion returned to Algeria in 1954 to observe and analyze the situation at the brink of the Algerian War of Independence. She described as the principal cause of the conflict the pauperization ("clochardisation") of the Algerian population.

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8. www.jstor.org › stable › 3821409"Déchiffrer le silence": A Conversation with Germaine Tillion

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   Germaine Tillion has often been a misunderstood and even controversial figure. But her growing renown in her native France and abroad bears witness to the pertinence of her critical perspectives and the precision of her historical analyses. She presently holds the position of honorary Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en