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Aug 30, 2024 · Women Resistants honored in the Panthéon External monument in Paris include: Germaine Tillion, Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz, Joséphine Baker, and Mélinée Manouchian (along with her famous husband, Missak).
Mar 29, 2021 · The two female honourees, Germaine Tillion and Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz, both began their resistance work at Paris’s Musée de l’Homme. Tillion was already a noted anthropologist, and de Gaulle, niece of the famous general, was a university student infuriated by Marshal Pétain’s armistice with the Nazis in June 1940.
Jun 6, 2024 · Which did not prevent figures such as Germaine Tillion, Lucie Aubrac, Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier and Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz from being present over the years. But when we began to take an interest in les Justes ("the Righteous"), the people who took action to save the Jews, we realised that women had a very strong presence 2 .
She and Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz were called in February 1950 to testify about charges made by a pair of deportees (very shady types, they discovered) who claimed two female guards had decapitated a French woman before the whole camp.
Other prisoners included Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz, Jacqueline Fleury and Fleury's mother. Her mother was killed in the camp in March 1945. Tillion escaped Ravensbrück in the spring of that year in a rescue operation of the Swedish Red Cross that had been negotiated by Folke Bernadotte. Female prisoners in Ravensbrück
Aug 7, 2024 · (WOMENSENEWS)–Germaine Tillion and Geneviève de Gaulle, French members of the Resistance and political prisoners in Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp during World War II, have been named to be interred in the Panthéon in Paris.
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Feb 21, 2014 · The women are Germaine Tillion and Genèvieve de Gaulle-Anthonioz, activists in a resistance group. Both were captured and sent to Ravensbrück, a concentration camp in northern Germany.