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Apr 28, 2008 · Germaine Tillion, 100, a celebrated anthropologist and French Resistance fighter during World War II, who wrote about her experiences in a Nazi camp, died April 19 at her home near Paris.
Oct 1, 2005 · Germaine Tillion is the absent presence of Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers (1966). Reintroducing Tillion opens up this film by revealing decisions made and debates engaged in during its construction and reception.
- Donald Reid
- 2005
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.
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
Pioneering French ethnologist, a student of Algerian desert tribes, who was an early leader in the French Resistance during World War II, survived internment at the Ravensbrück concentration camp, wrote a germinal study of the camp system, and worked for peace during the Algerian War for Independence. Pronunciation: gher-MAYN TEE-YEE-OH.
Apr 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 as compelling...
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Apr 20, 2008 · PARIS — Germaine Tillion, a French Resistance fighter during World War II and celebrated anthropologist, died Saturday, her association said. She was 100.
