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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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Oct 29, 2019 · This study evokes Tillion’s autobiographical writings and scientific observations in relation to her experiences as a prisoner in the Ravensbrück concentration camp to show how she both “lived” and “wrote” resistance.
