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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...
Oct 1, 2005 · Germaine Tillion is the absent presence of Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers (1966). Reintroducing Tillion opens up this film by revealing decisions made and debates engaged in during its construction and reception.
- Donald Reid
- 2005
Tillion was born on May 30, 1907, in Allegre (Haute-Loire) in south-central France. [1] She was the daughter of Lucien Tillion, a magistrate, and Émilie Cussac Tillion. [2] Her mother was also noted as an art historian and a French resistance fighter. [2] [3] She had a sister called Francoise and they were raised Catholic. [4]
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.
Germaine Tillion (1907-2008) Résistante, déportée à Ravensbrück et ethnologue, Germaine Tillion a été élève de Louis Massignon à l’Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes.
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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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.