Germaine tillion biography

(Germaine Marie Rosine Tillion)

OBITUARY NOTICE—

See index for CA sketch: Born May 30, , in Allègre, France; died April 19, , in Saint-Mandé, France. Anthropologist, ethnologist, historian, educator, activist, and author.

Tillion was one of the most honored and decorated women in France.

Germaine Tillion - Wikipedia

After several years of anthropological field work among the Berber people who lived in the mountainous Aurès region of eastern Algeria in the s, she joined the underground French Resistance during World War II. Arrested by the Gestapo in , she was imprisoned for three years at the women's concentration camp in Ravensbrück, in eastern Germany. She later claimed that her background in ethnography was one of the factors that helped her survive the experience.

It also allowed her to write an informed memoir and analysis of those years. After the war, Tillion carried out a larger project on the history of the valiant French Resistance movement, rendered even more heroic becaus