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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...

2. www.museedelhomme.fr › en › germaine-tillion-1907-2008Germaine Tillion (1907-2008 - Musée de l'Homme

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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.

3. www.encyclopedia.com › tillion-germaine-1907-2008Tillion, Germaine 1907–2008 - Encyclopedia.com

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   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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   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.

5. www.nytimes.com › 2008/04/20 › worldGermaine Tillion, 100, fought in French Resistance - The New ...

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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.

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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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   Who was Germaine Tillion?

   • Germaine Tillion was a major figure in contemporary French thought. She used her experiences studying peasants on the edge of the Sahara, fighting Nazis, and surviving a concentration camp as compelling intellectual fodder. Germaine Tillion died on Saturday at her home in St.-Mande, France. She was 100.

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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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   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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   What happened to Germain Tillion?

   • After that, Germain Tillion took over. Betrayed by the priest Robert Alesch, she too was arrested on 13 August 1942, held in solitary confinement at the Santé prison and transferred two months later to Fresnes. During her incarceration, she managed to take notes and never ceased to imagine ways to enter into communication with her camrades.

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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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8. www.encyclopedia.com › arts › encyclopedias-almanacsTillion, Germaine (Marie Rosine) | Encyclopedia.com

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   TILLION, Germaine (Marie Rosine) Nationality: French. Born: Allegre, 30 May 1907. Education: University of Paris, M.A.; diplomas from Practical School of Advanced Studies, National School of Living Oriental Languages, and School of the Louvre.