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   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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   Germaine Tillion (1907-2008) 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.

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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...

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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 .

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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.

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   Tillion, Germaine 1907–2008 (Germaine Marie Rosine Tillion) OBITUARY NOTICE— See index for CA sketch: Born May 30, 1907, in Allègre, France; died April 19, 2008, in Saint-Mandé, France. Anthropologist, ethnologist, historian, educator, activist, and author. Tillion was one of the most honored and decorated women in France.

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   Who is Germaine Tillion?

   • Germaine Tillion, born in Allègre (Haute-Loire), France, on May 30, 1907, is a French anthropologist, resistance fighter, and writer. She is also known as Yvonne Coudier in the Resistance. Her sister, Françoise, was born in 1909. Their father, Lucien Tillion, was a magistrate originally from Charolais (Saône-et-Loire).

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   When did Germaine Tillion die?

   • She also published a new reviewed edition of Ravensbrück, her book about Deportation. She died on 19 April 2008 aged 100. Her autobiographical work, Fragments of Life, was published the following year. Tzvetan Todorov - President of the Germaine Tillion association.

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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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   Where did Germaine Tillion store her documents?

   • When she finished in 1954, Germaine Tillion deposited her documents at Besançon in the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation (Fonds Germaine Tillion). She also gave documents to her comrades in the Ravensbrück Society and the ADIR, which published Les Françaises à Ravensbrück (Gallimard, 1965). In 1995, her documents were deposited at Besançon.

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   Who was Émilie Tillion?

   • Émilie Tillion was a woman who was 69 years old. On February 3, 1944, 958 other women, including Émilie, arrived from Compiègne in cattle cars. Germaine, Émilie's daughter, got word immediately and was devastated, knowing that anybody over 60 was doomed.

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   How did Germaine get word about Émilie Tillion?

   • Germaine learned about Émilie Tillion's situation immediately through the grapevine and was devastated. Émilie Tillion, though still vigorous, was 69, and Germaine knew that anybody over 60 was doomed. Through various complicities, Germaine managed to get her mother's age changed on the records to something under 60.

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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.