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A leading figure in the French Resistance, an ethnologist and writer, Germaine Tillion drew lessons from her experience of World War II that served her throughout her entire life. At all times she managed to combine testimony, reflection and action.
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.
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.
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, who died in April 2008 at the age of 100, joined the Resistance in 1940, eventually becoming one of the leading members of the Groupe du Musée de l’Homme (Museum of Man Network), a group of anti-Nazi intellectuals and academics.
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
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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...
