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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.
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...
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
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.
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.
Tillion, Germaine (1907—) 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.
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As the conflict intensified, in 1957, Germaine Tillion devoted all her efforts to mitigating the effects of the violence: she campaigned against torture, executions and met with FLN leaders to convince them to stop indiscriminate attacks.
